Do No Harm.

The author comments on the call by academic and industrial organizations for space-policy continuity into the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Topics covered include the National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) entrusting the job of making space-policy stability an election issue, the plan of NASA to shift operations in low Earth orbit (LEO) to the private sector, and the belief by lawmakers that NASA's architecture for reaching Mars lacks focus and detail.