Humans have done a remarkable job of making their presence felt on Earth, and now we're spreading to outer space. In doing so we've given rise to a fertile new profession: space archaeology.
"If you look at pictures of it now, it is very sort of retro looking and has a vintage space-age look.
"What I would like is some more data. I would like more people to be monitoring the condition of the satellite. I am happy for it to stay out of my reach. "This is now 60 years old, so people think it is very recent, even a little by futuristic. But, in fact, soon it will be 100 years since the first object was sent into space.
"We call it space junk, and junk is really what archaeologists study. We study the garbage left over by people in the course of their everyday lives, back millions of years.
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