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Astronaut Trump? Ivanka says she wanted to go to space in NASA visit
Space.com ^ | Sept 24, 2018 | Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor

Posted on 09/25/2018 8:58:52 AM PDT by ETL

While Ivanka Trump has a high-profile job advising her father, the president of the United States, she told the International Space Station Expedition 56 crew Thursday (Sept. 20) that she had different childhood ambitions.

"I think I can speak for all of us here to say you inspire us all. You actually have my dream job," she told the crew via a video call from NASA's Mission Control Center. "I always wanted to be an astronaut, and I always wanted to go to space. You are fulfilling my dream up there."

Trump made her comments while touring NASA's Johnson Space Center with astronaut Nicole Mann, one of the crewmembers recently selected for future missions on commercial crew vehicles. Mann, along with astronauts Christopher Ferguson and Eric Boe, will launch in the first Boeing Starliner test flight. The official flight date hasn't been set yet, but NASA hopes to start up commercial crew flights next year.

Accompanying the 36-year-old first daughter on her tour was Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, who represents NASA Johnson's home state of Texas. Pictures from the tour showed Trump looking at spacesuits, walking through a large simulator facility and admiring a miniature model of the space station. 

"The International Space Station is certainly a fantastic laborating in space and it's an amazing collaboration," NASA astronaut Drew Feustel, who commands the station's Expedition 56 crew, told Trump during her call. "We look forward to continued operations together, internationally and cooperatively."

Trump also met with Holly Ridings, who this week became the first woman in NASA's history to serve as the chief flight director, according to the Daily Mail. Later on, Trump talked with local high school students who participate in robotics competitions under the guidance of NASA engineers.

Trump's father, President Donald Trump, made some high-profile space decisions in the past year. He officially swore in Jim Bridenstine as NASA administrator in August, nearly a year after first nominating him in Congress. Bridenstine struggled to get votes in the U.S. Senate, and his appointment was delayed for months; government officials cited several reservations over Bridenstine's appointment, such as his past comments about climate change and LGBTQ issues.

President Trump announced in June that he would like to implement a "Space Force" to protect U.S. space infrastructure. And in December 2017, the president directed NASA to send its crews to the moon in the coming decade, rather than aiming directly for Mars — the policy direction of the past administration.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ivanka; trumpfamily; trumpnasa
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1 posted on 09/25/2018 8:58:52 AM PDT by ETL
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To: ETL

send Ocasio and Waters and Soros and FineSwine-—One Way.


2 posted on 09/25/2018 8:59:59 AM PDT by frank ballenger (.End noncitizen & illegals voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)
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To: ETL

So, who wouldn’t want to go to space

I want to go as well


3 posted on 09/25/2018 9:02:41 AM PDT by Trump.Deplorable
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To: ETL

She’d probably even look good in a space suit.


4 posted on 09/25/2018 9:03:46 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: ETL

She is taller than any of the other people in those pictures. How tall is she?


5 posted on 09/25/2018 9:06:40 AM PDT by Federal46 (federal 46)
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To: Federal46

Ivanka is 5-11. She was wearing flats when I got my pic taken with her and she was still obviously taller.


6 posted on 09/25/2018 9:08:48 AM PDT by jimfree (My18 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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To: jimfree

She is certainly a natural beauty.


7 posted on 09/25/2018 9:11:08 AM PDT by Federal46 (federal 46)
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To: All
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"What do I think of the new NASA administrator?
He's OK, I guess.
A little stupid on the "global warming" nonsense, though."

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New NASA chief Bridenstine says humans contribute to climate change 'in a major way'

FoxNews/Science ^ | May 22, 2018 | Sarah Lewin

In a NASA town hall yesterday (May 17), NASA's new administrator, Jim Bridenstine, said that he knows Earth's climate is changing, and that humans contribute to it "in a major way," also supporting NASA's research into that important area. The statement is significant because Bridenstine has expressed doubt about human-caused climate change in the past, causing some to question his suitability to lead a fact-focused NASA.

In 2013, as an Oklahoma congressman, Bridenstine claimed there was no current trend toward global warming. More recently, such as in his NASA administrator confirmation hearings last November, he has acknowledged that human activity contributes to climate change. But he had stopped short of saying that humans are the phenomenon's primary cause.

At the NASA employee town hall, Bridenstine described how his thinking had "evolved" on the topic and laid out his current beliefs.

"I don't deny the consensus that the climate is changing; in fact, I fully believe and know that the climate is changing," he said. "I also know that we, human beings, are contributing to it in a major way. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. We're putting it into the atmosphere in volumes that we haven't seen, and that greenhouse gas is warming the planet.

"That is absolutely happening, and we are responsible for it," he added. "NASA is the one agency on the face of the planet that has the most credibility to do the science necessary so that we can understand it better than ever before."

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...

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8 posted on 09/25/2018 9:12:04 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

Yep. I have nieces a little older than Ivanka and some were excited about going to space after reading ‘To Space and Back’ about Sally Ride. Lots of big photos.


9 posted on 09/25/2018 9:13:12 AM PDT by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

I’d probably need to be sedated for the first time going up.

Not knocked out but really mellowed like I had at Lasik.


10 posted on 09/25/2018 9:16:07 AM PDT by wally_bert (I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
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To: ETL

After Obama killed the Space Shuttle Program, NASA needs to rebuild their image, especially with American girls, and there would be no better way to do that than to make Ivanka a NASA Astronaut.


11 posted on 09/25/2018 9:16:25 AM PDT by Blue House Sue
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To: Sans-Culotte

Hmm, a weightless Ivanka....


12 posted on 09/25/2018 9:19:05 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (Grace and Dignity Will Win The Day)
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To: Blue House Sue

She can’t go into space, she needs to be the first woman president of the USA in 2025!


13 posted on 09/25/2018 9:53:34 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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Please send her into space with that husband of hers.


14 posted on 09/25/2018 9:54:35 AM PDT by proust ("The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.")
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

“She can’t go into space, she needs to be the first woman president of the USA in 2025!”

Please NO !!!

No lib legacies.


15 posted on 09/25/2018 10:33:57 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: ETL

Hey Ivanka:

Go to engineering school, then become a test pilot, and maybe we’ll talk.


16 posted on 09/25/2018 10:34:51 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

“She can’t go into space, she needs to be the first woman president of the USA in 2025!”

No thanks. I don’t want a New York progressive who is best buddies with Chelsea Clinton being president. Face it, she’s a rich girl, who LOVES cool clothes, so daddy bought her a company. She she has run a fashion company based upon ONE product... the name her dad gave her.

Additionally, a woman president would probably not be good for America if that comes because it is a “goal”.


17 posted on 09/25/2018 10:44:00 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Blue House Sue

NASA was done when it decided to not go back to the moon and prevented private enterprise from evolving the space program back then. Now that private enterprise is making headway, NASA needs to go quietly into the night.


18 posted on 09/25/2018 12:58:27 PM PDT by zaxtres
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To: Blue House Sue

NASA was done when it decided to not go back to the moon and prevented private enterprise from evolving the space program back then. Now that private enterprise is making headway, NASA needs to go quietly into the night.


19 posted on 09/25/2018 3:21:05 PM PDT by zaxtres
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