WASHINGTON (Reuters) – White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said on Monday that NASA administrator Charles Bolden was wrong to say that reaching out to the Muslim world was a top priority of the U.S. space agency…
The White House last week sought to clarify Bolden’s comment, saying Obama wanted NASA to engage with the world’s best scientists and engineers from countries like Russia and Japan, Israel and many Muslim-majority countries.
That failed to end the controversy.
Gibbs, at his daily news briefing, was asked why Bolden had made the comment.
"It’s an excellent question, and I don’t think — that was not his task, and that’s not the task of NASA," Gibbs said…
Meanwhile, we have this February 18, 2010 slide show, ‘NASA’s Cooperation With Non-Traditional Partners’ (a pdf file):
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