Fareed Zakaria : Ambitious scientific projects are worth pursuing . Federal funding for research and development is barely keeping up with inflation , he says . After all , the challenge of getting to the moon and back meant coming up with all kinds of technological innovations and solutions that have then had almost miraculous commercial applications . Funding basic science research did n't use to be a partisan issue , Zakaria says . But now it's become an ideological one.
Fareed Zakaria : Ambitious scientific projects are worth pursuing . Federal funding for research and development is barely keeping up with inflation , he says . Funding basic science research did n't use to be a partisan issue , Zakaria says . But now it's become an ideological one.