If you want to know about space debris in particular and the space program in general PLEASE DO NOT READ THIS BOOK!! There are 67 MAJOR errors in the first 100 pages dealing with the space program which could have been detected by anyone with the smallest familiarity with the space program. The editing and review of the book was also very sloppy with misspelled technical terms as well as organizational mistakes too numerous to mention. Examples of this inclue the National Research Council working for NASA, NORAD working for NASA, NASA working for US Space Command, and two different incorrect names for NORAD on the same page. Another major error identifies von Braun with the Vanguard rocket that exploded on its pad on Decwember 6, 1957. The Vanguard rocket DID NOT launch Explorer 1; it was launched by a Jupiter-C also known as Juno. Another claim is that the cosmonauts on Salyut 1 died after their 230-day mission in 1972; these cosmonauts perished after their 23-day mission in 1971. In yet another major error, the author claims that Plesetsk, the major Russian military launch facility is in the Arctic wastes of Kazakhstan; this site is in Russia; the author confused the Baikonur launch site located in the desert steppes of Kazakhstan with the Russian site of Plesetsk in the Arctic. In another major error the author claims sky watchers in the United States saw the NEAR spacecraft as it travelled over the South Pole in 1996 at 300 miles above the Earth. This is a physically impossible look angle, since people in the US would have to look through the earth to see anything in the skies above Antarctica. The book is full of these errors. Don't waste your money!