[Hoot Gibson]

I thought the budget was staying at 17.7 billion? The Cut was coming directly from the MARS exploration program?

It's not just the budget, it is the shift in priorities that threatens space exploration. NASA is becoming a big player in the so-called fight against global warming and one of its top stated priorities is now to make Muslim youngsters proud of their religion's contributions to math and science (which have been few and far between). To Obama, every federal dollar is earmarked for social engineering.

Arabs have made many significant contributions to math and science during history, but most of those contributions predate the founding of Islam.

Winning the race to the moon was a bipartisan effort. Obama's politicization of NASA is disgusting.

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NASA Chief: Next Frontier Better Relations With Muslim World

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden 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.

Though international diplomacy would seem well outside NASA's orbit, Bolden said in an interview with Al Jazeera that strengthening those ties was among the top tasks President Obama assigned him. He said better interaction with the Muslim world would ultimately advance space travel.

"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," Bolden said in the interview.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/...z22ozchFaQ

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