Too often within the U.S. government, space cadets run the show.

On Aug. 29, the Trump administration launched the U.S. Space Command, a new, concentrated cluster of units within the Pentagon tasked with satellite defense, missile warning, and general space operations support. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper recently claimed that the Space Command, “is the next crucial step towards the creation of an independent Space Force as an additional armed service,” without specifying the pressing need for a new space bureaucracy in the first place.