Space policy
The laws, budget decisions, and regulatory rules that determine what governments fund, license, and allow in space — and who pays for it.
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Space policy is the set of choices — made by Congress, the White House, and agencies like NASA and the FAA — about which missions get funded, which vehicles get licensed to fly, and which commercial activities are permitted or blocked. The hard part is that money committed to one program crowds out others, and once a launch vehicle or station is embedded in a district's jobs base, killing it becomes politically costly even when cheaper alternatives exist. The $4-billion question for any contested program is whether its technical case is being evaluated on merit or protected by the sunk-cost logic of congressional appropriations.
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The $4-billion launch Congress wouldn't kill
The White House budget called the Moon rocket SLS 'grossly expensive' at $4 billion a flight and moved to cancel it; Congress refused, and the rocket it tried to kill still launches the next crew to lunar orbit.
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