Sep 22 1974
From The Space Library
The North American Air Defense Command had predicted more than 10 000 pieces of space clutter would be circling the earth by the year 2000, the Los Angeles Times reported. More than 3200 man-made objects were already orbiting the earth, with one object falling back to earth daily. More than 77% of the total had resulted from explosions of satellites already in orbit, NORAD said. Space exploration by countries other than the U.S. contributed to increasing space clutter. (UPI, LA Times, 22 Sept 74)
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