-- And you thought NASA was about exploring outer space! Not in Obamaland.
"In a far-reaching restatement of goals for the nation’s space agency, NASA administrator Charles Bolden says President Obama has ordered him to pursue three new objectives: to “re-inspire children” to study science and math, to “expand our international relationships,” and to “reach out to the Muslim world.”
Of those three goals, Bolden said in a recent interview with al-Jazeera, the mission to reach out to Muslims is “perhaps foremost,” because it will help Islamic nations “feel good” about their scientific accomplishments.
In the same interview, Bolden also said the United States, which first sent men to the moon in 1969, is no longer capable of reaching beyond low earth orbit without help from other nations.
“NASA is not only a space exploration agency,” Bolden concluded, “but also an earth improvement agency.”
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Posted by John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.).
Seems to be plenty of space cadets, though...
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A few years ago, I read that Malaysia or somewhere Islamic, was sending a man into space, but one of their big concerns was how to fit his prayer schedule into flying around the earth in a space ship. The Islamo-boffins weren't sure whether each orbit of the earth should count as "a day", requiring X-number of prayers, or whether he was just subject to 24-hour periods as he would be on earth. They put a great deal of thought into this particularly weighty aspect of space travel.
When the Yanks do this kind of thing, they just concentrate on mundane stuff like life support systems, coping with zero gravity, navigation, and incidentals like that, and as far as I understand, they leave the praying part up to the individual astronaut. This probably explains a lot about why the United States is the only country to have put a man on the moon.