Leo Emil Wanta, born 1940, is an American businessman who claims to be the Reagan-appointed trustee of potentially trillions of dollars, the result of an arbitrage scheme to sink the Soviet economy.
Since the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite in 1957, people have sent a lot of stuff into orbit and beyond and they've left behind a lot of junk in the process.
A soft landing means a spacecraft has a slow, controlled descent and spacecraft from only three countries the United States, China and the former Soviet Union have ever done this.
During the Cold War, a period of intense rivalry after World War II between the Soviet Union and it's allies and the United States and it's allies, both major superpowers invested in spy satellites.