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Shouldn't NASA's first priority to be put men and women in space?

Bolden: NASA's Primary Mission Should Be To Foster Better Muslim Relations

Tue, 06 Jul '10

Comments Made During Interview With Al Jazeera Television.

In a recent interview with Al Jazeera television, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden (pictured) said his, and by extension NASA's "foremost" mission is to improve U.S./Muslim relations. And he said President Obama has given him that task.

"When I became the NASA administrator -- or before I became the NASA administrator -- he (Obama) charged me with three things," Bolden told the interviewer. "One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science ... and math and engineering,"

Source: http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?contentBlockId=...

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Sad, sad day for America.

    Impeachment anyone?

  • 4 years ago

    The fifty one%'s form of recommendations-blowing to me. . . some disciplines seem as though that, yet i comprehend of various that very plenty are not at any college i'm sufficiently conscious of. ok, although -- cool if so. EE's many times infamous for having that one woman in the dep., in my adventure. That seems to bypass heavily with CompE and CompSci, so i might in all threat factor to in spite of's occurring there because of fact the perpetrator. i do no longer comprehend that this is plenty a "geek" project considering each and every form of engneering majors are enormously geeky to the conventional international. . . yet which would be a minimum of one component. so a techniques as my very own EE turn-off, i comprehend i does not be caught lifeless there because of fact i do no longer detect a set of partial derivates just about as exciting as what I do all day. I have been given A's in each and every thing via differential equations, yet that does no longer mean i like each and every of the maths i'm waiting to do. CompSci majors the place I did my undergrad have been infamous for showering possibly as quickly as a week and did no longer have many instructions until eventually now approximately 11 considering no person have been given up that early, although. (Yeah, it grew to become right into a heavily technology/engineering college. . . you're able to escape with that.) possibly this is not how females want to stay.

  • 1 decade ago

    Actually... no. Sending people into space is glorious and all, but there's not a lot that can be done by humans that can't be done by machines in space now, and sending people is much more expensive.... I honestly can't think of a way a NASA admin could improve world relations.. odd quote from the guy. Whatever.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Jesus. I just threw up in my mouth a little. He's not even trying to hide his muslim azz sucking anymore!

    Telling America's rocket scientists to help muslims feel better about themselves.

    Pathetic.

    If they were worth a damn in this arena they'd have their own damn rocket scientists!

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  • Rob71
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Maybe 0bama should mandate that the FDA plug the leak in the Gulf. This man has no clue how to run this country. And it seems those around him are just as clueless or are afraid to stand up to him.

  • Happy
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    ... From the article you referenced:

    "Bolden insisted his mission was not diplomatic. He said the U.S. is not going to travel beyond low-Earth orbit without international help, and that no country could make it to Mars on its own. He held up international partnerships with the Russians, Japan, and Europe in ISS as examples of they type of international cooperation that continued space exploration will require."

    Sounds reasonable, doesn't it?

  • Tommy
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    First priority is to reach out to Muslims

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    He also said "NASA is an Earth Improvement Agency."

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