The second main trend is, that as a result of the growth of the commercial sector, the governmental and military sectors are increasingly dependent on commercial technologies and commercial innovation to reduce the cost and improve the performance of their systems. I think it's increasingly clear that American military space systems are really the thing that's unique about American superpower. Other countries have airplanes, other countries have nuclear weapons. But the United States is really the only country that has the sort of information dominance that we achieve through our military communications, navigation, weather, and spy satellites. Well, it's evidently the case that space is a very large place.
Humanity is small.
And there have been an awful lot of opportunities for a small humanity to cooperate and engage in the very large cosmos. There are a number of international organizations that deal with coordinating communications satellites. Really, you wouldn't be able to do international communications without international cooperation to make sure the satellites didn't interfere with each other. We also have the international space station, a partnership of America, Russia, Europe, Japan, Canada, and other countries, that's the leading form of human exploration in space. There are a number of other bilateral, cooperative endeavors.