It is not a good example.
In 2005, our congress added new taxes on cigarettes, gasoline, and liquor.
In 2012, the new congress rolled back these taxes to their 2004 level.
I suppose that "roll back the frontiers of space" means the following.
Before the 1950s, the furthest that men penetrated space was in a helium balloon, and that was only to the upper layers of the