Government should focus on long-term, risky research (where the risk is to projects, not to people), and the private sector should focus on delivering services that are already well understood and ready to be handled in a routine way. The irony of American politics right now is that normally pro-business Republicans are those most hostile to NASA’s new budget – which espouses the values of entrepreneurship and innovativeness that Republicans claim to hold dear.
而在政府这方面，应该把目光集中在长期性和有风险的研究（当然这些风险是对项目，而不是对人命而言），反之私营企业则应该专心提供那些已经研究完善且准备好以非特殊方式提供给公众的服务。但当前美国政治的讽刺之处却是往常重商主义的共和党人转而反对NASA的预算计划——殊不知这项预算计划本来就是和共和党人所珍视的企业家精神和创新精神不谋而合的。