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  Charles Bolden, a retired United States Marines Corps major-general and former astronaut, said in an interview with al-Jazeera that Nasa was not only a space exploration agency but also an "Earth improvement agency".
  
  Mr Bolden said: "When I became the Nasa administrator, he [Mr Obama] charged me with three things.
  
  "One, he wanted me to help reinspire 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."
  
  
  
  I note that there's no mention of any actual Space Exploration, which silly old me thought was the sort of stuff that NASA did. In the meantime it's a touchy feely approach to the Muslim world who have managed half of damn all in science development in the past 800 years. Surely the best thing is to do what we do in schools and award them a GNVQ in 'science studies'?

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