NASA’s Goals Delete Mention of Home Planet
The space agency's mission statement has been quietly altered to omit mention of the phrase ?to understand and protect our home planet? Why does George Bush hate Earth? .The space agency’s mission statement has been quietly altered to omit mention of the phrase ?…to understand and protect our home planet.? Why does George Bush hate Earth?
WAIT BEFORE YOU GO...N.Y. Times:
From 2002 until this year, NASA?s mission statement, prominently featured in its budget and planning documents, read: ?To understand and protect our home planet; to explore the universe and search for life; to inspire the next generation of explorers … as only NASA can.?
In early February, the statement was quietly altered, with the phrase ?to understand and protect our home planet? deleted. In this year?s budget and planning documents, the agency?s mission is ?to pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research.?
David E. Steitz, a spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said the aim was to square the statement with President Bush?s goal of pursuing human spaceflight to the Moon and Mars.
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