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Here we go down the road of multi-culturalism again. What comes next? Left handed homosexual Tasmanians displaced to Cuba? I am triggered I want my culture extolled for their contributions, Yes the Germanic peoples without whom we most likely would be gearing up for our first moon landing in 2020.

September 30, 2016
MEDIA ADVISORY M16-114
NASA TV to Broadcast Hispanic Heritage Event, Aspira con NASA / Aspire with NASA


Diana Trujillo, mission lead for NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover

Credits: NASA


Former NASA astronaut José Hernández

Credits: NASA

NASA will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month at the agency’s headquarters in Washington Tuesday, Oct. 4, with stories of aspiration, inspiration and exploration. Aspira con NASA / Aspire with NASA will highlight the contributions of Hispanics to NASA’s mission and their incredible personal stories. The event will air live on NASA Television and the agency’s website at 10 a.m. EDT.

Opening remarks will be given by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Krista Paquin, associate administrator for NASA Headquarters Mission Support. The program will feature guest speakers Diana Trujillo, mission lead for Mars Curiosity Rover, and former NASA astronaut José Hernández.

Aspira con NASA / Aspire with NASA is being hosted by NASA’s Hispanic Outreach and Leadership Alliance (HOLA) and the Equal Opportunity and Diversity Management Division (EODM). For information about the event, contact Jerry Rengel at jerry.a.rengel@nasa.gov.

For NASA TV streaming video, schedule and downlink information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv

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The sooner NASA and other political operatives realize that there is really only one culture here, the American culture (with apologies to Mexico and Canada) the sooner they will be able to focus on their real goal... getting us citizens into space.

NASA is a shell of what it once was because of politicians.

Agree completely, Verna...

NASA-- Not About Space Anymore... now it's a "social justice" tool...

Pathetic...

Later! OL J R

There are still pockets of excellence in NASA, but they are getting squeezed tighter and tighter. It's just another bureaucracy since the late 70's.

Joe Wooten wrote:There are still pockets of excellence in NASA, but they are getting squeezed tighter and tighter. It's just another bureaucracy since the late 70's.

Yep... couldn't agree more.

Later! OL J R

I have also noticed that many of the missions to other planets that used to be done completely by JPL or Goddard have been farmed out to contractors like SWRI and John's Hopkins.

JPL and the other centers doing ROBOTIC exploration are the only ones really doing EXPLORATION, as in going new places "where no man has gone before". NASA's manned programs are just "peeing in jars and looking at stars".

It's a crying shame that the manned program gets the lion's share of NASA's paltry budget. I'm not against manned exploration, but NASA hasn't done that since December of 1972. Their "plans" like lassoing asteroids and dragging them back to cislunar orbit so they can send out a multibillion-dollar manned Orion mission to "explore" a washing-machine size rock dragged back by a robotic probe doesn't inspire much confidence, either. Orion is an over-expensive one-trick pony, SLS is and obscenely expensive mega booster that, even when it flies, won't be capable of doing much of anything until expensive escape stages and mission modules are developed for it-- it's essentially a rocket without any payloads, that costs SO much money to even develop that there's no money LEFT for payloads! It's going to cost ridiculous amounts of money to even keep it as an operational program, and the launch costs on a per-mission basis will be absolutely astronomical, because it will only launch once every 2-3 years AT BEST. It isn't even capable of doing the mission it was supposedly designed for, NASA's Mars mission under the DRM-5 design reference mission, which requires the launch of up to six SLS's in fairly short order to assemble a Mars-bound spacecraft stack in orbit. With SLS designed for a launch rate of only 1 every 2-3 years, that means it'd take over a decade just to assemble a Mars bound spacecraft stack in orbit. SLS is a joke that won't survive to see its first flight IMHO, let alone the next political cycle (unless it remains as a "placeholder" to funnel money to the NASA contractors regardless of whether it ever actually does ANYTHING or not... the ultimate in corporate welfare).

NASA has gone off the rails-- not their fault, it's a symptom of the bad leadership this country has had for the last two decades (or more) that is leading this entire country off a cliff...

Later! OL J R

Yep. NASA is mainly a pork barrel for politicians from SE Texas, Maryland, Southern California, Northern Alabama, and Central Florida, with little pockets of pork centers in other states.