Planetes by Makoto Yukimura

Tokyo Pop Description by: Translation - Yuki Nakamura & Rewrite - Anna Wenger
Haunted by a space flight accident that claimed the life of his beloved wife, Yuri finds himself six years later as part of a team of debris cleaners on a vessel called the Toy Box charged with clearing space junk from space flight paths. The team consists of Hachimaki, a hot shot debris-man with a sailor's affinity for the orbital ocean; Fee, a chain-smoking tomboy beauty with an abrasive edge; and Pops, a veteran orbital mechanic whose avuncular presence soothes the stress of the job. Planetes follows the lives of Yuri and his fellow debris-men as they work and ruminate at the edge of the great empyrean sea. \

Planetes is one of my top 5 manga.
Its short (5 volumes) and sweet.
Its what I've learned is HARD sci-fi.
That means its a more realistic style of science fiction and I think it does a pretty good job of showing how life would be in the near future.
There is one scene with a tall girl who was born on the moon that has a lil science behind it that is pretty interesting and makes a lil sense as well.

All 5 volumes are available for purchase as well as on Stop Tazmo.

REMEMBER...
If you like a manga you read in scanlation do as much as you can to support the USA release.
Sometimes all I can do is buy the first volume.
Even a lil can make a difference.