NASA’s Goals Delete Mention of Home Planet
Posted: Friday, July 28th, 2006 by StanleyTags: Bullshit, Bush, Oh Shit
In thier 2006 budget, NASA deleted a sentence from their mission statement that is rather unfortunate. The language that was cut?
"To understand and protect our home planet"
The reasoning behind the change is that they wanted to align their statement with Bush's goals for space exploration. I think it's obvious that the goals of Bush's administration don't include consideration for anything relating to climate change or the environment. So I can't blame NASA for catering to the administration's twisted priorities. Perhaps they simply recognize that Bush has been a little touchy about the subject of global warming ever since Al Gore made that movie.
I just hope that this doesn't signify a permanent shift in mindset for the organization as some NASA scientists fear. Afterall if we can't 'understand and protect our home planet', well, all we've got are a few tin cans floating in space which tend not to work very well for long periods of time.
NASA’s Goals Delete Mention of Home Planet » [New York Times]
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