President Obama’s “foremost” mission for NASA isn’t going to Mars or colonizing the moon. No, it’s to reach out to the Muslim world. Seriously. Here;s NASA Administrator Charles Bolden:

“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 re-inspire 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.

Many Muslim nations may seem to belong on another planet, but this is a ridiculous mission for a space agency.