Today we are in the year 2017, the seventh year of the second decade of the 21st century, and yet our national space policy is still held hostage to a cold war declaration pronounced almost six decades ago, with a famous speech by a martyred president. That declaration created a big government space policy and program, fueled by transient cold war fears of the domination of the heavens and the earth by the former Soviet Union. The end result was flags and footsteps, but no enduring capability or presence despite arguably one of the greatest achievements in the history of humankind.