How long until space travel becomes impossible?

Think about this.

Tens of millions of tiny pieces of scrap ranging from metal from our shuttles..etc.

All stuck in orbit around earth until they inevitably either burn up , or land.

It's gotten so bad already in fact, that NASA now has to track the pieces bigger than 10 CMs just to keep astronauts safe.

We are quite literally polluting the shite out of our orbit. To the point of it being nearly unsafe for travel .

10-20 years. Give or take.

Here's an informational article on space debris if you want an interesting read.

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Seems we are trying to limit the amount of junk we send up as opposed to getting rid of the shite that's already there.

But honestly, what can you even do? Gonna be a scrapyard up there in a matter of years.

This debris travels up to 17,500 mph . Fast enough to damage a spacecraft.

Now, human scrap alone wouldn't be enough to make space travel dangerous as frick, but when you add in actual space debris, we are making it extremely difficult for the next generation to even leave the planet.