Space is a seductive place, where technology-induced vistasoften blur the policy vision of earthbound military planners,scientific explorers, or commercial entrepreneurs. This is themessage that beams down from Roger Handberg's book onspace militarization. He leads the reader through the twistsand turns of technology, law, and policy, through the bureau-cratic labyrinth of the U.S. military and space industrialcomplexes. In the end, one is faced with the same imponder-ables that confronted President Clinton in deciding whetherto deploy the National Missile Defense (NMD) system. Likean astute player on fourth down, he punted that spacefootball to his successor, and the Handberg volume gives youthe Monday morning quarterback advantage.