Finally, now we know why America’s space program is suffering serious stagnation. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden was tasked by President Obama to do three things:
“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 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.
Exploring outer space, not so important. NASA’s newest mission is to hand-hold Muslim nations so they can feel proud of themselves for their scientific achievements… which hasn’t been much in modern history. But the West does realize their interest in aviation, explosives, chemistry, nuclear energy, and perhaps some robotics as well.
It’s very infuriating to learn that my hard-earned tax dollars are going towards an Islamic World outreach program instead of innovative space exploration. I do not doubt that reaching Muslims may prove to be a more difficult mission than going to the moon, but come on! At least we were able to stick a flag on the moon — will Muslims let us do that in their countries?
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