President Trump on August 20, 2026, signed National Security Presidential Memorandum 17, replacing the 2013 Obama-era National Space Transportation Policy (PPD-26) — the first such update in thirteen years. The memorandum sets a goal of supporting more than 1,000 launches and reentries from American soil annually by 2030, roughly six times the 178 launches recorded in 2025. To reach that scale, it directs agencies to expedite permitting and environmental reviews, incentivize public-private co-development of launch infrastructure, identify new federal land reentry sites, and integrate space launch management into ongoing air traffic control modernization. Government payloads must generally launch on U.S.-manufactured vehicles, and NASA is directed to develop commercial lunar logistics and explore commercial crewed Mars missions. A key implementation question is whether physical infrastructure can keep pace: the two primary federal ranges — at Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg — already face capacity constraints, and the memorandum sets deadlines for agency reports but does not provide a dedicated construction budget for the expansion.