"Capt. JG" wrote in message
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I'm not saying it would be easy, but it seems to me that's a lot of
space-ready stuff costing billions to just throw out.

The US space program throws out billions of dollars of "junk" every decade,
not to mention how much other "junk" gets left on the moon and mars, or just
orbits the Earth until the orbits decay sufficiently to allow it to re-enter
and burn up. Or crash down on Australia.

Max