I just realized

With the White House press secretary now denying that Obama told NASA to focus on Muslim outreach and claiming that the head of NASA misspoke the various times that he said this, I was wondering how it is possible for there to be such a misunderstanding. And then it came to me! Obama told NASA to focus on Martian outreach not Muslim outreach. Or as they used to say on SNL, "Yeah, that's the ticket!"