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On the recordJuly 12, 2017
And politically, it's not very feasible because any given nation that has a piece of debris assigned to them, they're the sovereign owners of that piece of garbage, and so it becomes problematic to just go up and clean other people's stuff.
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Ted Cruz
Republican · Texas

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Discussing the challenges of space debris cleanup and national ownership issues.

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