Looks like we've put Earth up for grabs. At least from NASA'S newly altered mission statement. Since 2002, the opening phrase was: “To understand and protect our home planet; to explore the universe and search for life; to inspire the next generation of explorers ... as only NASA can.” Now they've hacked off the "To understand and protect our home planet" part and converted the rest to: “to pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research.” Yawn. Why not paraphrase what Star Trek said so well 40 years ago? "To boldly go where no man has gone before."
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