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Old 07-07-2010, 01:34 PM   #1
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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.
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Both, Bolden is who I was referring to.
Bolden is only doing what Obama told him to do. I can guarantee you he would never have dreamed up this Muslim thing otherwise.
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Does this mean that the NASA budget has been cut so much, that they'll only be using conventional aircraft for the foreseeable future?
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Does this mean that the NASA budget has been cut so much, that they'll only be using conventional aircraft for the foreseeable future?
Essentially, if canceling Orion continues to be wrapped up in cancellation of the Constellation program. If that happens I don't believe NASA will even have the equipment necessary to resupply the International Space Station once the shuttles are retired. It will be dependent on the Russians, Europeans, Japanese, and a few companies NASA pays for resupply. As I understand it the only remaining vehicle that can transport crew is the Russian Soyuz.

On the original topic, this guy is an idiot but that doesn't even begin to register as a surprise anymore.
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Essentially, if canceling Orion continues to be wrapped up in cancellation of the Constellation program. If that happens I don't believe NASA will even have the equipment necessary to resupply the International Space Station once the shuttles are retired. It will be dependent on the Russians, Europeans, Japanese, and a few companies NASA pays for resupply. As I understand it the only remaining vehicle that can transport crew is the Russian Soyuz.

On the original topic, this guy is an idiot but that doesn't even begin to register as a surprise anymore.
I was being facetious by referencing NASA directors who fly around the world as diplomats, but only just. It would be nice to see Orion get off the ground, though there have been several other proposed solutions.



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