The author analyses and interprets selected poems and their meaning for spacepolicies and programs. When one speaks of poetry concerning manking's movementinto outer space, a new perspective on reality flows into our lives. In history,thee are poems of exploration and discovery, of paradise, the universe andGod, of romance, the moon and the stars. There are poems for astronomers,astronauts, dreamers and even politicians and statesmen. A few poems fromthis vast population have been referred to in official government documentsand reports, for instance Tennyson's "Locksley Hall". The author interpretsthese poems in particular while making relevant comparisons to memorablepoems of all times.