The return of Kosmos 482

More than 50 years after trying and entirely failing to reach Venus, a Soviet spacecraft is about to tumble from orbit back down to Earth.

Space junk

The tragedy of the commons observes that common access to a resource can quickly degrade it, and we are now littering low earth orbit in space just as we have polluted the Earth and its oceans.

Houston, we have a problem

Just like we have on Earth, humans have left an absolute mess in space and nobody wants to clean it up.