An Act to provide for research into the problems of flight within and outside the Earth’s atmosphere, and for other purposes.

With this preamble, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was created by Congress and the president on October 1, 1958.  NASA’s birth was directly related to national defense.  The United States and the Soviet Union were in the middle of the Cold War. During this period, space exploration emerged as a major area of competition and became known as the space race.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, appointed by President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm), 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.   Huh?

What in the world does “improving relations with the Muslims” have to do with exploring space?   Bolden said in an interview with Al Jazeera that strengthening those ties was among the top tasks President Obama assigned him.   (I’m shocked.)  According to Bolden, better interaction with the Muslim world will ultimately advance space travel.  

Going up into space and getting blown to bits are two entirely different things, Director.

According to Bolden:

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.

Because kissing up to the Muslim world has worked so well thus far for Scooter and his administration, hasn’t it?

Bolden was in the Middle East last month celebrating the one-year anniversary since Obama delivered the previously alluded to address to the Muslim world in Cairo.  The NASA Director spoke in June at the American University in Cairo.  During his interview with Al Jazeera, he described space travel as an “international” collaboration of which Muslim nations must be a part.  

Because as his boss has told the world over and over again,  American exceptionalism is a bad thing.

Bolden said:

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).   

Bolden used the International Space Station as an example, praising the contributions there from the Russians and the Chinese.

Of course,  Bolden denied the suggestion that he was on a diplomatic mission   According to Bolden, he was there in a distinctly non-diplomatic role. 

He said:

Not at all. It’s not a diplomatic anything. 

Bolden verbally destroyed all of NASA’s accomplishments over the last 52 years by saying that the United States  will no longer travel beyond low-Earth orbit on its own and that no country is going to make it to Mars without international help.  

What a defeatist administration.

Bolden caught a lot of criticism this year for being the boss of NASA during the cancellation of the agency’s Constellation program, which was in the process of building new rockets and spaceships that would return American astronauts to the moon.  Re-itering the adminstration’s theme of  the importance of “international” cooperation in future missions, Bolden told Al Jazeera that the moon, Mars and asteroids are still planned destinations for NASA. 

Just not as an American mission.

By turning NASA into a Muslim Outreach Project, Obama and his administration are not only backhanding a part of American Exceptionalism that little boys grew up dreaming about being a part of, but they are also sabotaging Americans’ day-to-day lives by limiting the fount of  technology that has contributed mightily to our country’s health, education, and way of life.  Here are a few of the technological marvels that came directly from NASA:

The political destruction of NASA’s original mission by the president and his administration dishonors the memory of all the brave men and women who died heroically trying to reach the stars.   Furthermore, this action illuminates this administration’s disbelief in American exceptionalism and their contempt for the institutions that truly spotlight it. 

One large slap to Americans, one giant step backwards for mankind.

Sources:  foxnews.com, suite101.com, nasa.gov