Posted on 02/22/2015 7:53:30 PM PST by big bad easter bunny
Can anyone say that what NASA has become over the last 6 years is patriotic? JFK must be spinning in his grave not to mention my grandfather.
They can’t even get earth temperatures right.
NASA has become... a nothing. I look forward to the day it becomes something again.
NASA’s accomplishments are on a bell curve these. Some are unbelievably good and some are unbelievably bad. The bad almost always involves a politician.
Try to picture American aviation being done exclusively by the federal government from the time of Kitty Hawk until 1941...... I mean, we’d have lost WW-II for starters and it would have gone downhill from there.
Why would JFK be upset since he was a democrat, why not Eisenhower who created NASA in 1958?
Barack Obama: Nasa must try to make Muslims ‘feel good’
The head of the Nasa has said Barack Obama told him to make “reaching out to the Muslim world” one of the space agency’s top priorities.
By Toby Harnden in Washington 8:00PM BST 06 Jul 2010
Charles Bolden, a retired United States Marines Corps major-general and former astronaut, said in an interview with al-Jazeera that Nasa was not only a space exploration agency but also an “Earth improvement agency”.
Mr Bolden said: “When I became the Nasa administrator, he [Mr Obama] charged me with three things.
“One, he wanted me to help reinspire 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, math, and engineering.”
He added: “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].”
Byron York, a conservative columnist for the Washington Examiner, characterised Mr Obama’s space policy shift as moving “from moon landings to promoting self-esteem”
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