Like a lot of children in the 1960's I watched and followed the race to the moon with real enthusiasm. It was top notch entertainment and fingernail biting stuff.
So it's a bit of a dampener to see this
video animation of the space junk left circling the planet.
It makes me think we need a real "
Dark Star" team. Their role was traversing space and eliminating unstable planets. I think eliminating unstable junk around the planet will become a necessary role for the future - providing the planet has one.