In the early 1960s, President John F. Kennedy led America in a space race against the Soviet Union. American men and women across the nation have supported this goal, allowing NASA to make great strides in advancing its space exploration programs. This unified nation achieved its goal, and Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. However, since then, American space exploration has only declined. Funding for NASA has been drastically reduced, thus significantly limiting opportunities for exploration of the cosmos. Understanding and exploring the universe is detrimental to the progress of the United States and opens doors to vast possibilities. If the government chooses to limit its own progress, then that responsibility will have to fall into other hands. Privatizing America's space program will greatly improve its capabilities to map the cosmos, all while creating jobs for American citizens and saving the government money along the way. With its crippling debt and rising unemployment rates, America needs job opportunities. Commercialized space exploration companies will create countless jobs in maintenance, research, construction, and various other fields already essential to space programs. From the work in mission control centers that would be needed to manage newly formed operations to the creation of shuttles and other spacecraft, a wide variety of jobs would become available. These new companies or new subsidiaries of pre-existing companies, with the future in mind, will open doors to enthusiastic American citizens across the nation. Roles will be filled and people will help improve the future of their nation. The further development of human knowledge of the solar system and nearby galaxies should be the platform... in the center of the paper... it works. This commercialized space program paves the way for understanding. People across the United States will rise in global rankings, surpassing other nations in scientific literacy. Thanks to Armstrong's visit to the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission, man knows that he is not limited to Earth. As technology advances and man's understanding of the behavior of the universe grows, people will be able to take an even greater step to reach other planets in the vast expanses of space. The benefits of creating a privatized space program in America are too great to analyze. ignore. From the abundance of jobs this would create to the reduction in government spending this would enable, commercial space travel does nothing but help the United States. It is time for America to renew the ambition it harbored during Kennedy's presidency. This small step will be a big step forward for the nation.