Recently NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver made a speech to the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics on what she termed "the next fifty years in space." The address was primarily a defense of the controversial Obama space policy. Beyond some of the soaring rhetoric and some good, but vague wordage about the roles of commercial space and NASA, one could not help but notice how tinny and small the Garver, which is to say the Obama, vision of the next fifty years in space really is.