Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
In 2010, President Obama told NASA chief Charles Bolden that\u00a0his foremost job was<\/a>\u00a0to: \u201c . . .\u00a0find 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.\u201d\u00a0But last month, NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan said the agency\u2019s primary focus is\u00a0humans on Mars by 2035<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Is this another one of President Obama\u2019s famous pivots?\u00a0 Are we pivoting to Mars, now?<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
We’re lucky he hasn’t pushed an expedition to land on the Sun. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: In 2010, President Obama told NASA chief Charles Bolden that\u00a0his foremost job was\u00a0to: \u201c . . .\u00a0find 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.\u201d\u00a0But last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44472,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44471\/revisions\/44472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}