NASA Tutorial: 'Capital of Israel is Tel Aviv' The United States
was the first to put a man on the moon -- but apparently its
space agency is unable to figure out where the capital of Israel
is on Earth. According to NASA's Remote Sensing Tutorial, the
capital of Israel is Tel Aviv. This despite a US recognizing the
international custom in which nations designate their own
capitals. Israel has designated Jerusalem as its eternal and
indivisible capital. Primary author Nicholas M. Short, Sr., a
former NASA Goddard employee and author/editor of four NASA-
sponsored books, who wrote the tutorial website and CD-ROM,
completed the massive 15-year project on January 1, 2011.
According to the site, the tutorial is a "survey of the space
age that considers what we can learn using sensors operated from
satellites and spacecraft which look inward at the Earth -- its
land, oceans, and atmosphere -- and outward at the planets, the
galaxies and, going back in time, the entire universe -- the
cosmos." The tutorial serves as