Ted Cruz thinks nasa has lost focus

http://http://mashable.com/2015/03/1...cience-attack/

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"I'd like to start by asking a general question," said Cruz on Thursday during a subcommittee hearing on the Obama administration's $18.5 billion budget request for NASA for fiscal year 2016, which includes funding increases for Earth science research. "In your judgment, what is the core mission of NASA?" Cruz asked. "Our core mission from the very beginning has been to investigate, explore space and the Earth environment, and to help us make this place a better place," Bolden said. NASA studies everything from the depths of the oceans to the solar energy coming into the Earth's atmosphere. Cruz pushed back against the "Earth" part of NASA's mission. "Almost any American would agree that the core function of NASA is to explore space," he said. "That's what inspires little boys and little girls across this country." "I am concerned that NASA in the current environment has lost its full focus on that core mission.".

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