content: Yea because it's impossible to build rockets that they could fire every x time to maintain an altitude.  There's a ton of Soviet junk up there. And there's dead Soviets on the moon when their Lander suffered catastrophic depressurization. This is also the reason people don't go back, don't wanna show dead Soviets on tv. Instead they claimed they burned up in the atmosphere. You won't find this shit on your research because few even know it happened. All secretive. Yea actually the Soviets got to the moon first. The Soviets kept that on the low key to avoid embarrassing the US when it claimed to get there first. It would've lead to nuclear war.  Yup, space is pretty shitty and Soviets tossed whomever they could find up there even if the craft wasn't fully tested to best the US. As a result there's tons of orbiters and rocketry that failed, some containing dead Soviets floating around the earth. That's why they only show edited crap, and cut the feed when the "junk"passes by the iss.