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Today's vision

In an interview last month on Al-Jazeera, NASA chief Charlie Bolden said that one of NASA's foremost tasks is to engage with Muslim nations.

Obama Is No Kennedy: Redefines NASA's Mission As Global Warming.

Yesterday's vision

Former astronaut Harrison Schmitt, who walked on the moon and once served New Mexico in the U.S. Senate, doesn’t believe that humans are causing global warming.

The US space program is "embarrassing and unacceptable," said Neil Armstrong, who on July 21, 1969, first set foot on the moon

Ex-astronaut Cernan minced fewer words, saying that NASA and private engineers involved in the space program "did not join the team to design windmills or redesign gas pedals, but to live their dreams of once again taking us where no man has gone before."

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Becoming such a small-minded country:

"...Playing for the quarterly report, playing for the next election cycle, they're mortgaging the actual future of our nation and the rest of the world passes us by..."

WE STOPPED DREAMING

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It was around the 1970s that the human spirit began to be overwhelmed by bureaucracy

I suspect that human capability reached its peak or plateau around 1965-75 – at the time of the Apollo moon landings – and has been declining ever since.

Human capability partly depends on technology. A big task requires a variety of appropriate and interlocking technologies – the absence of any one vital technology would prevent attainment. I presume that technology has continued to improve since 1975 – so technological decline is not likely to be the reason for failure of capability.

But, however well planned, human capability in complex tasks also depends on ‘on-the-job’ problem-solving – the ability to combine expertise and creativity to deal with unforeseen situations.

On the job problem-solving means having the best people doing the most important jobs. For example, if it had not been Neil Armstrong at the controls of the first Apollo 11 lunar lander but had instead been somebody of lesser ability, decisiveness, courage and creativity – the mission would either have failed or aborted. If both the astronauts and NASA ground staff had been anything less than superb, then the Apollo 13 mission would have led to loss of life.

But since the 1970s there has been a decline in the quality of people in the key jobs in NASA, and elsewhere – because organizations no longer seek to find and use the best people as their ideal but instead try to be ‘diverse’ in various ways (age, sex, race, nationality etc). And also the people in the key jobs are no longer able to decide and command, due to the expansion of committees and the erosion of individual responsibility and autonomy.

By 1986, and the Challenger space shuttle disaster, it was clear that humans had declined in capability – since the disaster was fundamentally caused by managers and committees being in control of NASA rather than individual experts.

Decline

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Former astronaut Harrison Schmitt, who walked on the moon and once served New Mexico in the U.S. Senate, doesn’t believe that humans are causing global warming.

The US space program is "embarrassing and unacceptable," said Neil Armstrong, who on July 21, 1969, first set foot on the moon

Ex-astronaut Cernan minced fewer words, saying that NASA and private engineers involved in the space program "did not join the team to design windmills or redesign gas pedals, but to live their dreams of once again taking us where no man has gone before."

NASA Climate Rebellion: Astronauts condemn NASA's global warming endorsement -- Letter signed by 7 Apollo astronauts & deputy dir. of space shuttle program

In an unprecedented slap at NASA’s endorsement of global warming science, nearly 50 former astronauts and scientists--including the ex-boss of the Johnson Space Center--claim the agency is on the wrong side of science and must change course or ruin the reputation of the world’s top space agency.

Challenging statements from NASA that man is causing climate change, the former NASA executives demanded in a letter to Administrator Charles Bolden that he and the agency “refrain from including unproven remarks” supporting global warming in the media.

The letter was signed by seven Apollo astronauts, a deputy associate administrator, several scientists, and even the deputy director of the space shuttle program.


http://washingtonexa...orsement/469366

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NASA 1986 : All Life Extinct In A Few Decades

If you are reading this, you are already dead.

http://www.real-scie...n-a-few-decades

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NASA bureaucrat James Hansen used global warming activism to become wealthy

Hansen's outside activities have become extraordinarily lucrative — yielding on average more than a quarter of a million dollars per year in extra income between 2007 and 2010 from outside sources, all relating to the work he is paid by the taxpayer to perform for NASA.

http://www.traders-t...?...4&hl=hansen

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Former astronaut Harrison Schmitt, who walked on the moon and once served New Mexico in the U.S. Senate, doesn’t believe that humans are causing global warming.

The US space program is "embarrassing and unacceptable," said Neil Armstrong, who on July 21, 1969, first set foot on the moon

Ex-astronaut Cernan minced fewer words, saying that NASA and private engineers involved in the space program "did not join the team to design windmills or redesign gas pedals, but to live their dreams of once again taking us where no man has gone before."

 

 

Congress Slashes Funding For NASA’s Research Global Warming 

 

“By rebalancing, I’d like for more funds to go into space exploration; we’re not going to zero out earth sciences,” Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith, who chairs the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, told E&E News. “I’d like for us to remember what our priorities are, and there are another dozen agencies that study earth science and climate change, and they can continue to do that.”

 

 

“We only have one agency that engages in space exploration, and they need every dollar they can muster for space exploration,” Smith continued.

 

Trump tapped former Republican Pennsylvania Rep. Bob Walker as a senior adviser to his NASA transition team — a man who thinks NASA should do less “politically correct environmental monitoring” and more space exploration.

 

 

http://dailycaller.c...rming-research/

 

 

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2010 

 

Barack Obama: NASA must try to make Muslims 'feel good'  

 

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:

 

... 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."  

 

http://www.telegraph...-feel-good.html