Space is full of trash. NASA is finally hiring someone to clean it up

NASA is seeking to hire a ‘director of space sustainability’ who will make sure the entire agency is preserving space even as it becomes more crowded.

The word sustainability has become somewhat synonymous with the environmental movement. But really, the word is about longevity. It asks us to ponder whether a particular action or system can be maintained indefinitely, or is in some way self-defeating, self-limiting, or self-sabotaging.