And if the private sector can recover public-sector astronauts about as far up as Philadelphia
sits from Boston and usher them through a 17,000-miles-per-hour reentry without incinerating them, then perhaps it can play the roles currently assumed by the United States Agency for International Development, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Legal Services Corporation, and so many other boondoggles born in that era of faith in government that also coincided with NASA’s heyday.
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