NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview with TV network Al-Jazeera that the “foremost” thing President Barack Obama wants him to do as head of our space program is “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.”
International outreach is fine, but we thought the main goal of the U.S. space program was to explore space.