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Oh, it is on! It's on! Oh! Can everyone hear me? Can everyone hear me? Thank you! Thank you!

Now astronauts, please take your seats! Sit down! Sit down! Sit down! All the way down! Okay, then you can float if you need to. All right? Just, I need everyone's attention. Okay, thank you. Thank you.

Now, you may all be wondering why I brought you here today to the International Space Station. Well, it's been brought to my attention that you have been leaving your space junk all the way down.

Space junk all over outer space, and now it's time to clean it up! Oh! It's not even lying! No, I don't care who's junk it is! It's a mess up here, and it's dangerous, and if we don't clean it up, someone is going to get hurt.

Oh, you are right. Astronauts, I'm only going to say this once. Clean up your outer space right this minute, or no freeze-dried ice cream for dessert! Come on!

And I don't want to hear any whining! Hey, Mandia, who are you yelling at in here? I could hear you all the way from my house.

Oh, hey, guys! I'm just imagining what I would say to the astronauts on the International Space Station if I had the chance. And it is not going well.

Here, pop the top of my head and see for yourself. I still feel weird about doing this, Mandia. Here, I'll do it for you.

Yeah! Let's back up before they get out! See what I mean? Yeah, wow, those astronauts are really mad. What's going on?

I know, I just asked them to clean up all their scrap metal and junk that's floating around in space! The mess up there!

You mean all those bits of old satellites and empty rocket parts and pieces of metal just floating around Earth?

Yeah, it's just this giant junk jumble that's been growing since 1957, which by the way is the same year that humans first launched a rocket into space.

And that was the rocket that carried the world's first space satellite called Sputnik, still the best name ever.

Oh, yeah, that was launched by Russia!

You are a little baby Einstein, Gairaz. Anywho, ever since then, we humans have been launching more and more and more and more rockets and satellites up into space.

Mindy, did you happen to investigate just how much junk is even up there? Sure did! So the last time I counted? You did not count it, Mindy.

Okay, so the last time someone else counted NASA, they found more than 500,000 pieces of space junk all the size of a marble or larger, just orbiting or circling around the Earth.

And now there are so many pieces of metal floating up there and orbiting around our planet that is actually making things dangerous.

Dangerous as in some of this junk can actually crash into other junk?

Yep, and in fact, this junk is flying around so fast that it's pretty surprising that there aren't even more accidents and crashes.

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