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To: Cincinatus' Wife
According to NASA...

Actually, that's "according to spacepolicyonline.com".  This is what NASA says is according to NASA (from here):

NASA Today

NASA conducts its work in four principal organizations, called mission directorates:
 

  • Aeronautics: manages research focused on meeting global demand for air mobility in ways that are more environmentally friendly and sustainable, while also embracing revolutionary technology from outside aviation.
     
  • Human Exploration and Operations: focuses on International Space Station operations, development of commercial spaceflight capabilities and human exploration beyond low-Earth orbit.
     
  • Science: explores the Earth, solar system and universe beyond; charts the best route of discovery; and reaps the benefits of Earth and space exploration for society.
     
  • Space Technology: rapidly develops, innovates, demonstrates, and infuses revolutionary, high-payoff technologies that enable NASA's future missions while providing economic benefit to the nation.

NASA's fine.  The problem we got is with all the mindless political hacks on both the extreme left and extreme right that make up stories about what NASA's saying and doing.   So it boils down to being our job of taking the trouble to see what's really going on.

23 posted on 03/20/2014 6:23:53 AM PDT by expat_panama (Arguing with those who have renounced reason is like giving medicine to the dead. --Thomas Paine)
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To: expat_panama

NASA’s not fine.

The linked information I gave you states their vision/mission statement correctly. NASA HAD dropped “space” and “aeronautics” and now it has been replaced (but that’s just for show while they totally gut the agency).


25 posted on 03/20/2014 8:37:54 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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