Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Beyond the Charter

If you need to start the week on an outraged note, this one ought to be more than adequate for the task:

Space Exploration Doesn't Make the Top Three Priorities

Once upon a time we put men in orbit. We sent men to walk on the moon. We created a reusable launch vehicle and built a space station. We assembled a network of global positioning satellites. We revolutionized communications globally. We wrote history. We even invented Velcro and Tang.

Now we've cancelled most of it. And we've sent the chief administrator to the Middle East to conduct foreign policy with the Muslim world. In the process he describes the top three priorities for NASA in the future. None of them involve space exploration or managing the research programs.

They focus on bringing Muslims into the loop and somehow linking that to the centuries old scientific and engineering achievements of that society when it was flourishing.

Now, that section of the world is dedicated to building nuclear weapons and developing delivery systems for those weapons.

Can you see a problem with this priority linkage to NASA?

3 comments:

MagiK said...

Umm Why is NASA being tasked with the Job of the State Department?

bongobear said...

Absolutely the dumbest idea I've heard this week...which is saying a lot! Suppose Bush had suggested using NASA to improve relations with the Catholic church or some similarly idiotic idea...the main stream media would have had a 'duck walking fit'.

Ralph said...

At least the Messiah hasn’t advocated the development of space technology so Muslim states can gain military superiority in low earth orbit. (Or was that merely left unspoken so it can show up as an earmark in some DoD appropriation?) Or maybe something less sinister is planned, like renaming NASA to give it more of a Muslim identity. In any event, it appears that the Bamster’s stewardship of NASA will be on par with his management of the Gulf oil spill. Just for fun, I will email this to the Democrat the represents my Congressional district to see if he is on board with our nation's new goals for space flight.