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1 Curt  Tue, Jul 6, 2010 2:54:55pm

Like we couldn’t use the funds that will be spent to keep people in their homes, extend unemployment, or cover health care for those in need…

2 Shiplord Kirel  Tue, Jul 6, 2010 3:12:38pm

Curt
Just how much funding do you think NASA gets?

3 captdiggs  Tue, Jul 6, 2010 3:19:43pm

It was never NASA’s mandate to be a political arm of the State Department.
The real reason this is getting attention is that all this *muslim outreach* has not only produced no positive results, it’s all been a one way street.

4 Gus  Tue, Jul 6, 2010 3:25:14pm

re: #3 captdiggs

It was never NASA’s mandate to be a political arm of the State Department. The real reason this is getting attention is that all this *muslim outreach* has not only produced no positive results, it’s all been a one way street.


NASA and Arab Youth Venture Foundation Launch Student Program

WASHINGTON — NASA and the Arab Youth Venture Foundation in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) have partnered to provide three to 12 UAE engineering students each year the opportunity to work with U.S. students, scientists, and engineers on NASA missions. The program’s goal is to engage outstanding college students from the UAE in fields of science, technology, engineering and aerospace.

“The space program has a unique ability to inspire students to pursue excellence in disciplines that drive science and technology innovation,” said Joyce Winterton, assistant administrator for education at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “With this Space Act Agreement, NASA will engage outstanding students in the UAE to continue their development in the critical skills of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.”

Under this program, UAE students will join U.S. students in a research project administered by the Education Associates Program at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. UAE student involvement will provide U.S. student participants with valuable experience and knowledge about working together with representatives from other countries. The Education Associates Program anticipates its first group of Education Research Fellows in January 2010. Corporations and government entities in the UAE will sponsor the foundation’s activities in full, including costs related to student lodging, housing, and transportation.

Continues.

5 Shiplord Kirel  Tue, Jul 6, 2010 3:49:22pm

I can’t think of any subject about which the American publicly is more disastrously and provably misinformed than the NASA budget.

NASA’s budget….as far as Americans think.

In a just-completed study, we asked respondents what percentage of the national budget is allocated to NASA … NASA’s allocation, on average, was estimated to be approximately 24% of the national budget (the NASA allocation in 2007 was approximately 0.58% of the budget.)


The average person in this country thinks that NASA spends more than 40 times as it really does. This makes one wonder if Idiocracy is upon us. This is one of the worst PR disasters in history and the implications are enormous.


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