In a way it is too bad he lived to see the Space program is tatters. Neil WAS American Exceptionalism!
When we start believing that again, we will invest in the space program and move back into the lead on this planet...
The Movie Obama's America 2016, plays a video of the current new Muslim outreach objective under Obama administration
interview that NASA Administrator Charles Bolden gave to al-Jazeera:
Though international diplomacy would seem well outside NASA’s orbit, Bolden said in an interview with Al Jazeera that strengthening those ties was among the top tasks President Obama assigned him. He said better interaction with the Muslim world would ultimately advance space travel.“When I became the NASA administrator —or before I became the NASA administrator —he 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 …