NASA Outreach Program 'Confirmed' Despite White House Denial, Rep Says..."Our Goal is to Make Muslims Feel Good About Themselves"
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Call it a failure to launch.
The White House is disavowing a plan to have NASA conduct outreach to Muslim countries, but a congressman who talked to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden about that plan last month said the initiative was very real until somebody slammed the brakes
on it.
Rep. Pete Olson, ranking Republican on the Space and Aeronautics House Subcommittee, told FoxNews.com that Bolden described the outreach program as part of the administration's space plan during a conversation they had in June.
"He confirmed it to me," Olson said. The Texas Republican said he thinks the program existed until the "uproar" compelled the administration to rethink it. Though Bolden mentioned the outreach months ago during a speech in February, it drew widespread attention after he described it as a "foremost" priority during an interview with Al Jazeera last month. The administration initially stood by the claim, but White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday that Bolden misspoke and that the outreach is "not the task of NASA." The last thing we need to be doing now is spending precious space dollars ... on outreach to any religion," he said. "We need to spend money on human space exploration." http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/14/nasa-outreach-program-confirmed-despi...
The White House is disavowing a plan to have NASA conduct outreach to Muslim countries, but a congressman who talked to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden about that plan last month said the initiative was very real until somebody slammed the brakes
on it.
Rep. Pete Olson, ranking Republican on the Space and Aeronautics House Subcommittee, told FoxNews.com that Bolden described the outreach program as part of the administration's space plan during a conversation they had in June.
"He confirmed it to me," Olson said. The Texas Republican said he thinks the program existed until the "uproar" compelled the administration to rethink it. Though Bolden mentioned the outreach months ago during a speech in February, it drew widespread attention after he described it as a "foremost" priority during an interview with Al Jazeera last month. The administration initially stood by the claim, but White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday that Bolden misspoke and that the outreach is "not the task of NASA." The last thing we need to be doing now is spending precious space dollars ... on outreach to any religion," he said. "We need to spend money on human space exploration." http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/14/nasa-outreach-program-confirmed-despi...
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freecrack
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the grandest of all nothing stories is what this is.
might as well be trying to get zulu tribes to understand the cooking network, its just so massively irrelevant - 1 year ago
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congoboy
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freecrack:
the story isnt irrelevant but those behind it are
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congoboy:
to what end?
does showing a preschooler how to enrich uranium make us vulnerable?what are they going to do, stop wasting theyre money on shit like sailboat shaped hotels with putting greens on the roof, and begin a space program?
the middle east cant both be stuck in the 8th century and be able to understand a space program. - 1 year ago
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