Did you know? The 3/4 trillion dollar stimulus package passed by obama back in '09 would have been enough to fund NASA for about the next 47 years. This is just me dividing 750 billion by 15.8 billion (the avg annual nasa budget over the last 50 years adjusted for inflation. ) Now one has to ask himself what would have yielded a better advancement for mankind. I think the answer is clear... New energy efficient windows at the federal office building of course!
That's because Obama doesn't know that it was the Russians who launched Sputnik! Sputnik symbolized that America had fallen behind.
Wrong. NASA is 25% black. That doesn't mean they are 75% white. And yes, it's fucked it up tremendously. Is it not evident in the fact that they're shutting down the shuttle program and handing it over to China and Russia? LOL!! More on NASA's role as a "racial justice" entity rather than a Space Agency. This fucking "anti racism" diversity horse shit has invested everything, and inexorably shuts it down, just like it has with NASA. NASA's Final Frontier: Finding the great Black Scientist NASA has selected the United Negro College Fund Special Programs Corp. of Falls Church, Va., to administer a $1 million career development and educational program designed to address the critical shortage of U.S. minority students in science and engineering fields. The NASA Astrobiology Institute's (NAI) Minority Institution Research Support (MIRS) program in Moffett Field, Calif., is providing the funding for the four-year effort. The program will provide opportunities for up to four faculty members and eight students from minority-serving institutions to partner with astrobiology investigators. Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and the future of life on Earth and the potential for life elsewhere. "Providing new education opportunities for minority students will both enrich lives and answer a critical need for proficiency in science and engineering," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said. "But just as importantly, the program is an investment to cultivate imaginative thinking about the field of astrobiology." The United Negro College Fund Special Programs Corp. will use its extensive database of 14,000 registrants to develop an online community to provide webinars, virtual training and videoconferences, and provide outreach and recruitment for program participants. The program's objective is to engage more teachers from under-represented schools in astrobiology research and increase the number of students pursuing careers in astrobiology. "Our nation's underserved populations are a tremendous resource on which we must draw, not just for science, but for everything we do," said Carl Pilcher, director of NASA's Astrobiology Institute. "We are extremely pleased that the NAI MIRS program will continue contributing under the leadership of such a strong and experienced partner." Founded in 1998, NAI is a partnership between NASA, 14 U.S. teams of universities and other organizations, and seven international consortia. NAI's goals are to promote, conduct, and lead interdisciplinary astrobiology research, train a new generation of astrobiology researchers, and share the excitement of the field. NASA is attempting to address the "critical" shortage of Black people within the ranks of science and engineering fields, at a time when many high schools are doing away with honors programs and gifted classes because of a shortage of Black people in their ranks. So how many Black astrobiologists are there?: During the Astrobiology Science Conference held at NASA Ames in April 2002, less than 1% of the 800 attendees were African-American. To increase the visibility and participation of underrepresented scientists, The Minority Institution Astrobiology Collaboratory (MIAC) was formed. A sane society would have no problem asking why that might be, but an insane society merely inquires as to how a greater representation of Black people will be possible (hint, lowering standards to becoming an astrobiologist). One institution that has allocated money for NASA (and is a predominately Black university) is Alabama A&M. A top producer of Black people with advanced doctorates, Alabama A&M is also home to growing controversy that involves NASA, tens of millions of dollars and a chief compliance officer who used to be a janitor According to high ranking officials at Alabama A&M University, the FBI has started asking questions about recent events at the Research Institute. That's the flagship scientific research program, an 11-year-old separate corporate entity that employs A&M professors to handle millions in private and government research contracts on behalf of NASA, the Defense Department and numerous companies, such as Boeing. "Yes, some senior administrators have been informed of a potential situation with the Research Institute," said university spokesperson Wendy Kobler on Thursday when asked about the FBI investigation. "Of late, there have been no follow up conversations about the ongoing inquiry into the Research Institute." Like all government agencies, NASA exceeds its employment of Black people (correlated to the percentage of the overall US population) by 49 percent.
No, it's not 11% black, if it were 11% black it would be getting sued by the federal government for not being black enough, like many cities and counties are today. LOL! Way to pick out one little sentence to respond to out of a several paragraphs on Affirmative Actions, blacks, and NASA which you ignore. LMAO! I'm going to make a prediction: now you're going to start calling me names, one will likely be "racist", then you will run away in shame because you can't actually debate the issue.
http://nasapeople.nasa.gov/workforce/default.htm click Demographic Information 18,968 employees ,2,197 black employees.Thats around 11 % black employees
Nice, very authentic looking ( ) screen shot. In any case. I have read that NASA doubles it's AA requirement. I interpret that to mean that it has twice the amount of it's staff which are blacks than are their share of the population. Of course, that doesn't touch hispanics, arabs, and all the other "diversity" and affirmative action hires at NASA.