While I'll grant that all these speeches were made on a trip to the Middle East, it doesn't seem reasonable to me that the Muslim world needs to be a particular

While I'll grant that all these speeches were made on a trip to the Middle East, it doesn't seem reasonable to me that the Muslim world needs to be a particular focus of NASA. In terms of important world partners, I would think that India and China would be two of the major players that NASA collaborations could target, but neither of those are majority Muslim.