Okay kiddo, have you ever looked up at the stars at night and wondered what's out there? Well, the United States has a bunch of rules and plans for exploring space and doing cool things like sending people to the moon and robots to Mars. This is called the space policy.
The space policy is made by the grown-ups in charge of the country, like the President and the Congress. They decide how much money we should spend on space and what we should do with it. They also make rules about what we can and cannot do in space, like not littering or harming other planets.
One really important thing in the space policy is NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration). NASA is like a big group of very smart people who figure out how to explore space and make all the cool stuff that goes up there. They work with other countries' space programs too, so it's like they're all one big team exploring the universe together.
Another thing in the space policy is protecting our country's ability to use space for military reasons. This means that we make sure nobody else is doing anything up in space that could hurt us.
Overall, the space policy is like a big list of things we want to do and not do in space. We want to explore and learn while also being responsible and safe. And who knows, maybe one day you'll be a part of it too!