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NASA Director Swears Oath on Carl Sagan Book Instead of Bible
 
The new director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center chose to swear her oath of office not on the Bible but on a copy of Carl Sagan’s 1994 Pale Blue Dot.NASA: Keegan Barber
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The new director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center chose to swear her oath of office not on the Bible but on a copy of Carl Sagan’s 1994 Pale Blue Dot.

For her swearing-in ceremony last week, Dr. Makenzie Lystrup, who served as an AIP-ASA Congressional Fellow in the office of liberal Massachusetts representative Edward Markey from 2011-2012, opted out of swearing before the Almighty in favor of the agnostic astronomer Sagan.


In its tweet announcing the ceremony of induction for its new director, NASA Goddard cited Sagan: “Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.”

https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2023/04/13/nasa-director-swears-oath-on-carl-sagan-book-instead-of-bible/
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Re: NASA Director Swears Oath on Carl Sagan Book Instead of Bible
« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2023, 08:35:26 pm »
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Re: NASA Director Swears Oath on Carl Sagan Book Instead of Bible
« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2023, 08:36:04 pm »
I don't have a problem with any of that...so long as she's highly qualified and not appointed for nefarious reasons.
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Re: NASA Director Swears Oath on Carl Sagan Book Instead of Bible
« Reply #3 on: April 14, 2023, 08:54:28 pm »
I don't have a problem with any of that...so long as she's highly qualified and not appointed for nefarious reasons.

You’re talking about the Biden administration

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Re: NASA Director Swears Oath on Carl Sagan Book Instead of Bible
« Reply #4 on: April 15, 2023, 09:59:19 am »
Yo, Lady (presumptive of pronouns), Carl Sagan didn't make what you will be shooting rockets into.

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