How does this make muslims feel good about themselves? The most important mission of NASA...
“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.” -Charles Bolden, NASA Administrator
I knew Charlie Bolden when he was an astronaut, before he became the head of the Astronaut Office, before he was the NASA Adninistrator and a politician, which comes with the title unfortunately. He was a very likeable person, as were most astronauts. Likeability is part of the job description.
Being an astronaut is a dream job. But its also essentially a political appointment. One gets to train and fly in space, more than once if you are lucky. But its definitely also a PR job and you have to be good at people and helping sell the program. Unfortunately the higher up on the chain you are, the closer you are to the politicians you really work for.
I dont know how Charlie Bolden felt about his muslim outreach assignment. However he felt about it, it was directed from the Obama White House.
Maybe you know this or maybe not: He flew more than 100 sorties into North and South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia in the A-6A Intruder while assigned to VMA(AW)-533 at Royal Thai Air Base Nam Phong, Thailand, from June 1972 to June 1973.
So there might be more to the man than your quote above.