President Obama’s “foremost” charge to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden (as Bolden told Al Jazeera): “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.” Just like President Kennedy’s charge to NASA 50 years ago…

To Infinity and Beyond?
By Asher Embry

Our heroes once were astronauts and NASA was our pride.
Barack now sees it differently, with other “missions” eyed.
The tasks they’ve now been given are irrelevant and strange.
Obama wants their focus aimed at tracking climate change.

“The Right Stuff” has been canceled and O’s buried every trace.
We’ll count on Russian cosmonauts to ferry us to space.
We grew up with the Moon our goal, and space flight was our dream.
Now NASA’s chief priority is Muslim self-esteem.

(You can read more of Asher Embry’s Political Verse at www.politicalverse.com.)