NASA Chief: Next Frontier Better Relations With Muslim World

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Fox News:

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 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 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 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.
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Um, don't the Russians and the Chinese at least have modern infrastructure and technology to go along with their contributions?

[Geee]

Fox News:


NASA Chief: Next Frontier Better Relations With Muslim World
Published July 05, 2010 | FoxNews.com


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 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 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 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.

[NCTexan]

Geee!

 

Maybe Barry wants NASA to help Iran with their delivery systems?

 

I'm not certain that I can think if anything more plausible.

[Pepper]

NCTexan

 

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his "foremost" mission as former the head of America's space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world.

 

Charles Bolden should be fired. I don't give a rat's *ss what he does on his own time, but I'll be damned if he speaks for the United States NASA program on my dime making Muslims feel good. (Who is his boss anyway?)^sarcasm

 

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.-- Barack Hussein Obama

 

His boss man, Barack Obama, should be charged with gross negligence - he does not have the ability to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

 

Evidence? Charles Bolden, a proxy for Obama, is exhibit #666 in a long list.

[Pepper]

Send Bolden into orbit.

[NCTexan]

Send Bolden into orbit.

Pepper! To me he sounds like he's already "way out there".

[Pepper]

Send Bolden into orbit.

Pepper! To me he sounds like he's already "way out there".

 

Yeah, but he's speaking for the pResident.

 

NASA CHIEF: OBAMA WANTED ME TO MAKE MUSLIMS FEEL GOOD

[Pepper]

NCTexan

 

[SrWoodchuck]

NCTexan

 

Pepper! Great pic!

 

We need to check this list first, to see if it will actually offend Muslims.

 

 

Things That Offend Muslims

[NCTexan]

Pepper! SrWoodChuck!

 

[Argyle58]

From Foxnews.com today:

 

A NASA official on Tuesday stood by Administrator Charles Bolden's statement that part of his mission is to improve relations with Muslim countries, but backed off the claim that such international diplomacy is his "foremost" responsibility.

[Pepper]

That's a stunning likeness, NCTexan!

 

Pepper! SrWoodChuck!

 

[Pepper]

From Foxnews.com today:

 

A NASA official on Tuesday stood by Administrator Charles Bolden's statement that part of his mission is to improve relations with Muslim countries, but backed off the claim that such international diplomacy is his "foremost" responsibility.

 

 

I can't criticize Bolden - he is only doing what Obama told him to do. Just a tool.

 

(Besides, we would have a real rookie to back Bolden up in case he's sacked. Bolden's back up has extensive experience working as an intern for John Glenn.... and she has extensive experience organizing things for public sectors. She's advised Kerry and Hillary, so, she's good as gold in my book.)^sarcasm

 

Lori Garver, Deputy Administrator NASA

[Pepper]

Good comments here on this same issue

 

Obama to NASA Chief: Make Muslims ‘Feel Good’

 

H/T Instapundit Glenn Reynolds: RAND SIMBERG ON NASA’S feelgood policy for Muslims.

[Pepper]

NCTexan!

 

Here's your casting call

 

Michelle Malkin: Photoshop call: Redesign NASA’s logo

[Valin]

"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.

 

Foremost? I have no problem with reaching out to the Islamic world, but NASA? Foremost? Having a little trouble getting my arms around this.

I am how ever getting images of a female astronaut in a burqa