{"id":4428,"date":"2010-07-06T13:06:27","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T17:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=4428"},"modified":"2010-07-06T14:09:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T18:09:00","slug":"nasas-new-mission-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/07\/06\/nasas-new-mission-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s new mission statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;To boldly re-assure where none have <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/06\/nasa-an-189-billion-self-estee\" target=\"_blank\">re-assured<\/a> before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When I became the NASA administrator &mdash; or before I became the NASA administrator &mdash; [President Obama] 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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Good to see that the US federal government knows how to prioritize, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;To boldly re-assure where none have re-assured before.&#8221; When I became the NASA administrator &mdash; or before I became the NASA administrator &mdash; [President Obama] 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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,44,13],"tags":[52,158,47,69],"class_list":["post-4428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-space-science","category-usa","tag-absurd","tag-barackobama","tag-islam","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-19q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4428"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4434,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428\/revisions\/4434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}