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He came up with a fund to promote technological development in majority muslim countries. and now we know that he enlisted nasa in this effort. so the interview that charld bolden gave with al-jazeera was on a trip that he made to cairo on the one-year anniversary of the president's speech. so this is part of the president's policy. this is not the policy coming out of nasa. >> well, as luck would have it, we were in cairo for that speech and so we were lucky enough to hear it in person. but i guess -- we are still struggling with what about nasa? nasa has been in many ways stripped down quite...

>> when i became the nasa administrator, he charged me with three things to re-inspire children and expand international relationships and third is and 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 engineering. joining us is a correspondent for the washington examiner. what happened to the moon and mars? >> you know the "s" in nasa stands for space. and when this came out and we heard what the administrator bolden had said, i mean, everybody, membe...

Of nasa in the bush administration. he said that nasa does have a role in inspiring people around the world and in improving the image of the united states, but it does that by accomplishing great things. it did it by going to the moon or the space shuttle launches which are awesome any time anyone sees them. they didn't have a self-esteem promotion program. they promoted interest in themselves by make figure great accomplishments. that's the thing that seems to be missing in nasa's thinking right now. >> we all say things that get misinterpreted or that we regret later, want a do-over, whatev...