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    A person wearing purple gloves holds up a soiled food container wrapped in plastic, surrounded by cleaning supplies and boxes. The gloves and condition of the container suggest cleaning or examination.
    A tile made up of trash was generated by an early version of a heat melt compactor developed by NASA. Two companies are competing to produce similar devices to handle trash on spacecraft and possibly other planets.
    A cube-shaped, white enclosure labeled
    Sierra Nevada Corp.’s prototype has an air-inflated bellows that creates compression.
    An astronaut, floating in a spacecraft, enthusiastically holds a yellowish object wrapped in fabric. The background is filled with various equipment and supplies.
    NASA astronaut Mike Fossum demonstrates in a video how to pack trash before it is loaded on a cargo spacecraft docked with ISS.
    A bright fireball streaks across a dark sky, leaving a glowing trail.
    A European Space Agency cargo spacecraft carrying trash from the ISS burns up over the Pacific Ocean. Space agencies around the world are working on ways to reduce, reuse and recycle trash from space exploration.