 to boldly go nowhere only in obama s america  nasa administrator charles bolden said in a recent interview that his foremost mission as the head of america s space exploration agency is to improve relations with the muslim world yes you read correctly one nasa s head s primary jobs is to improve relations with muslims 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 reinspire 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 and math and engineering bolden said in the interview note that none of those three items has anything to do with nasa s missions in space through exploration and advancing our understanding of the universe he wants to educate children don t we have an cabinetlevel position to do that already and reach out to foreign governments when did the secretary of state stop doing that wasn t there a reset button around here somewhere that she could press to stop the muslims from trying to kill us the nasa administrator was in the middle east last month marking the oneyear anniversary since obama delivered an address to muslim nations in cairo bolden spoke in june at the american university in cairo in his interview with al jazeera he described space travel as an international collaboration of which muslim nations must be a part why do muslim nations have to be part of the drive into space middle eastern countries haven t made any significant contribution to science in hundreds of years and now they are going to stop honorkilling their daughters and help humanity reach for the stars unlike bill clinton obama never said he didn t inhale so maybe he can use that as excuse common sense continues to elude this administration  