空间探测,将重点放在宇宙空间站的商业化和长期发展上,并对私人轨道航天站实行短期租借,这便是里根政府的新的航天政策的基础。据美国航空和航天局局长詹姆斯·弗莱彻说,这一范围广泛的航天政策“首次确立了美国将把人类生存活动空间从地球轨道延伸到太阳系的长远目标。” Space exploration, which focuses on the commercialization and long-term development of the space station, and on short-term leasing of the private orbital space station, underlies the Reagan administration's new spaceflight policy. According to NASA chief James Fletcher, this wide-ranging spaceflight policy “for the first time establishes the long-term goal of the United States to extend the space of human existence activities from orbit into the solar system.”