the place in question was out of site of the crew of the shuttle, isn't this one of the reasons they said they wouldn't have done a space walk? out of site?
I opted for space junk early on. While the odds are astronomical, this is an astronomical mission where every part, every computer command, every number, every second is in "at risk" mode.
What man has created here is "known" and like everything we do, we try to control it.
But we penetrated a universe with "uncontrollable" parameters. How brave we are!!