The proposals for the future of the U.S. human spaceflight program set forth in President Barack Obama’s Feb. 1 budget proposals and clarifying remarks over the past month by science and technology adviser John Holdren and the NASA leadership most certainly do not represent, as has been widely reported, a stepping back from human spaceflight.

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John M. Logsdon is the founder and former director of the Space Policy Institute at the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, where he remains professor emeritus. His book “After Apollo? Richard Nixon and the American...