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NASA's Bolden: No American-Led Return To the Moon 'In My Lifetime'

Posted by timothy on from the how's-the-heart? dept.

MarkWhittington writes "A clash over the future course of American space exploration flared up at a recent joint meeting of the Space Studies Board and the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board. In one corner was Al Carnesale of UCLA, who headed the recent study issued by the National Research Council that found fault with the Obama administration's plan to send American astronauts to an asteroid. In the other corner was NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, who has been charged with carrying out the policy condemned by the NRC report."

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  1. That's what you get... by Le+Marteau · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ... for electing Obama.

    Check out what Obama want's Bolden to do. Direct quote from Bolden:

    "When I became the NASA administrator, (President Obama) charged me with three things," Bolden said in the interview which aired last week. "One, 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, math and engineering."

    Their "foremost" task is to make Muslims feel good. He literally said that. Yet he still heads NASA

    Thanks, jackasses, for electing Obama.

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  2. Re:He's retired by Le+Marteau · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    " Yet he still heads NASA"

    Nope, he's a retired army man

    He is the current Administrator of NASA. http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/programs/national/summer/home/bolden-soi-quote.html

    Fox News would be proud of you.

    You are a fucking retard. Whenever you, and the likes of you, encounter someone who dislikes Obama, it's the old "product of Faux News" slam. It's ridiculous by now... I'm sure it makes you feel better to spout such trite idiotic lines, but any thinking individual can see that you are simply an unthinking fucking retard.

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  3. Speaking as an American ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No, I do not "oppose" JUST Islam - I "oppose" ALL use of such mythological nonsense as justification to enslave any human being, PERIOD. IF "your" specific mythology "fits the bill" ...

    The founders of the nation of the United States of America understood the problems with such mythology used by the various kings, popes and other power mongers, and the first and second amendments make it clear that it IS my indivual right to use whatever means available to me to make such mythologies nothing more than historical curiosities.

    No surrender, I will give no 'quarter', liberty or death.