Re: NASA Chief: Next Frontier Better Relations With Muslim World

strengthening those ties was among the top tasks President Obama
assigned him
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fuck Brobama and his endearment to muzzies

maybe he's looking for more money

On Jul 6, 10:17 am, JSM <ekrub...@gmail.com> wrote:
> NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his
> "foremost" mission as the head of America's space exploration agency is to
> improve relations with the Muslim world.
>
> Though international diplomacy would seem well outside NASA's orbit, *Bolden
> said in an interview with Al
> Jazeera*<http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/talktojazeera/2010/07/2010711...>that
> strengthening those ties was among the top tasks President Obama
> assigned him. He said better interaction with the Muslim world would
> ultimately advance space travel.
>
> "When I became the NASA administrator -- or before I became the NASA
> administrator -- he charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to
> help re-inspire
> children<http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/05/nasa-chief-frontier-better...>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," Bolden said in the
> interview.
>
> The NASA administrator was in the Middle East last month marking the
> one-year anniversary since Obama delivered an address to Muslim nations in
> Cairo. Bolden spoke in June at the American University in Cairo -- in his
> interview with Al Jazeera, he described space travel as an international
> collaboration<http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/05/nasa-chief-frontier-better...>of
> which Muslim nations must be a part.
>
> "It is a matter of trying to reach out and get the best of all worlds, if
> you will, and there is much to be gained by drawing in the contributions
> that are possible from the Muslim (nations)," he said. He held up the
> International Space Station as a model, praising the contributions there
> from the Russians and the Chinese.
>
> However, Bolden denied the suggestion that he was on a diplomatic mission --
> in a distinctly non-diplomatic role.
>
> "Not at all. It's not a diplomatic anything," he said.
>
> He said the United States is not going to travel beyond low-Earth orbit on
> its own and that no country is going to make it to Mars without
> international help.
>
> Bolden has faced criticism this year for overseeing the cancellation of the
> agency's Constellation program, which was building new rockets and
> spaceships capable of returning astronauts to the moon. Stressing the
> importance of international cooperation in future missions, Bolden told Al
> Jazeera that the moon, Mars and asteroids are still planned destinations for
> NASA<http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/05/nasa-chief-frontier-better...>
> .

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