This statement is quantified and supported by data, as a 2013 Phillips & Company poll found that approximately seventy-five percent of American adults support doubling NASA's budget (to 1% of the federal budget) , with an emphasis on allocating funds for space travel, particularly to Mars. Space travel fulfills both desires for basic and applied science – as the latter is used to work towards the former in the field – and can be used as a model for the two realms to work in tandem to achieve more comprehensive science in other fields. Rather than those who apply science – such as hardware and software engineers and scientists from Roving Mars, by Steve Squyres – and those who seek to gain fundamental knowledge from that application – such as research scientists, including Squyres himself, from the same book—fighting with each other—as they often do at the beginning of the book—the two groups of people and scientific styles must work cooperatively to achieve the most meaningful results possible—which is seen as the result of the efforts of the Roving Mars team, like the Opportunity rover it is still functioning and collecting data. Therefore, instead of asserting the supremacy of basic or applied science, as Mukherjee tends to do for the former, it is essential to recognize the vital nature of both fields of science.,