Former astronaut Charles Bolden picked to lead NASABY WILLIAM HARWOOD STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION Posted: May 23, 2009
President Barack Obama meets with General Charles Bolden, right, and White House aides earlier this week in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. Credit: Official White House photo by Pete SouzaNineteen years after helping launch the Hubble Space Telescope, Charles F. Bolden Jr., a former combat pilot, Marine Corps major general and veteran space shuttle commander, has been selected by the Obama administration to serve as the space agency's next administrator. Lori Garver, a former NASA associate administrator for policy and plans and a space policy advisor to the Obama campaign, will serve as Bolden's deputy. (...)
https://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0905/23bolden/https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Space/story?id=7679385&page=1NASA chief defends Obama’s space planhttps://news.mit.edu/2010/bolden-visit-0512Q&A with Charles Bolden, Former NASA Administrator and AstronautPublished Date October 12, 2017
Bolden to receive Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest and deliver a presentation at a free public event at Scripps Oceanography October 17Q: During the 14 years you served as a NASA astronaut, you flew on four missions. Is there one particular memory that stands out during your time in space?
CB: Every one of my four missions was unique for different reasons. The first one was unique because it was my first flight and that was an absolutely unbelievable experience. I had the privilege of flying with a phenomenal crew, including then-Congressman Bill Nelson, who is now U.S. Senator Bill Nelson of Florida. We became very good friends over that experience. The other thing that was memorable about my first flight was that we landed ten days before we lost Challenger. I went from about as high as you could be having come back from my first flight in space, to about as low as a person can be having just lost seven very good friends.
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/qa-with-charles-bolden-former-nasa-administrator-and-astronautA Conversation With Charles Boldenby Stephen Petranek, AARP, July 2016
U.S. space commander talks about visiting Mars, threats from asteroids and international collaboration in space
BY POON WATCHARA-AMPHAIWANWhat changed your thinking?
I met Ron McNair, the second African American to fly in space. He asked if I was going to apply for the space program after Marines flight school, and I told him, "They'd never pick me." He looked me in the eye and said, "That's the dumbest thing I ever heard. How do you know if you don't ask?" He embarrassed me into filling out my application.
https://www.aarp.org/politics-society/history/info-2016/american-astronaut-charles-bolden-interview.htmlExclusive: Space News Interview with NASA Administrator Charles BoldenAmy Svitak January 17, 2011
Cost growth on the James Webb Space Telescope is threatening funds for other astronomy missions. Given that cost growth and delays occur on nearly all flagship-class missions, should NASA revert to the “faster, better, cheaper” mission mantra of the Dan Goldin era?
Our situation with James Webb — no one is as angry as I am about that. However, there have been no decisions on other programs as a result of what we found with James Webb. I have made some significant management changes in the program. [NASA Associate Administrator] Chris Scolese is my representative to oversee the totality of this program, and we’re working with NASA’s Science Mission Directorate to see what impact it will have down the road on other programs. But we’ve not made any adjustments to other programs based on James Webb. I was never a person who believed in the faster, better, cheaper mantra. And so you’re not going to hear me go back to faster, better, cheaper.
https://spacenews.com/exclusive-space-news-interview-nasa-administrator-charles-bolden/Astronauta wśród skafandrów kosmicznych, które z powodu EVA w STS-31 Discovery/F-10 HST nie zostały użyte.
STS-31 pilot Charles F. Bolden, is surrounded by extravehicular mobility unit spacesuits in the airlock of the Earth-orbiting space shuttle Discovery. The suits did not get used outside the spacecraft as the mission's spacewalk was cancelled. Bolden's role in the spacewalk, had it happened, would have kept him inside the orbiter, supporting the efforts of two crewmates.
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons/29030690274Exclusive Veteran Interview: The Honorable Major General Charles Bolden, Jr., USMC (Ret.)July 5, 2022
https://www.armedforcesreunions.com/exclusive-veteran-interview-the-honorable-major-general-charles-bolden-jr-usmc-ret/Ex-NASA Director Charles Bolden: I am a constant optimist and believe that space brings peoples closer together - TASS interview09.09.2024 ТАСС
https://vpk.name/en/912906_ex-nasa-director-charles-bolden-i-am-a-constant-optimist-and-believe-that-space-brings-peoples-closer-together-tass-interview.htmlIn Their Own Words: Astronauts on 25 Years of Hubble (Part 1)by Emily Carney 10 years ago
(...) We can thank the astronauts who performed Hubble’s servicing missions for making it possible to correct the observatory’s initial lens flaw. These crews, who spent a lot of time training for their missions and did a lot of exceptionally hard work on orbit, also significantly extended Hubble’s lifespan. Thanks to their dedication and bravery, we have had many additional years of science and discoveries that we will continue to examine for years to come. They helped us to innovate new tools for use in microgravity and gain valuable experience for future missions to deep space on our journey to Mars, where we will certainly need to work outside the confines of a habitat and work in real time on spacecraft and instruments that can only be serviced with human intellect and expertise. (...)
https://www.americaspace.com/2015/04/23/in-their-own-words-astronauts-on-25-years-of-hubble-part-1/In Their Own Words: Astronauts on 25 Years of Hubble (Part 2)by Emily Carney 10 years ago
The Hubble Space Telescope appears to “fly” over Earth as it is photographed during STS-109. Photo Credit: NASAhttps://www.americaspace.com/2015/04/24/in-their-own-words-astronauts-on-25-years-of-hubble-part-2/Interview with NASA Administrator Lt. Gen. Charles F. Bolden (USMC-Ret.)By Craig Collins - May 23, 2011
https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/interview-with-nasa-administrator-lt-gen-charles-f-bolden-usmc-ret/First Black NASA Administrator Charles Bolden 'Pleaded' To Get Into Naval AcademyFebruary 9, 20167:47 PM ET Heard on Morning Edition By Laura Wagner
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/02/09/466191748/first-black-nasa-administrator-charles-bolden-pleaded-to-get-into-naval-academyExclusive Veteran Interview: The Honorable Major General Charles Bolden, Jr., USMC (Ret.)July 5, 2022
(...) 1st Lieutenant Bolden flew more than 100 missions from the base into South and North Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos in the early 1970s, primarily in the A-6A Intruder. His assignments were mostly nighttime interdiction, bombing hard targets such as bridges, roadways, fuel and ammunition depots, as well as moving targets of troop and ammunition convoys. Many sorties were only 500 feet off the ground. The site’s strategic flight location was critical in supporting the South Vietnamese Army, as well as allied campaigns in the north.
“We usually flew in the evening and the Viet Cong knew we were coming, but not from where, so we had the element of surprise,” Bolden said. “We didn’t carry many offensive weapons, mainly just 500 to 2,000 pound bombs, and had to be on alert, especially from anti-aircraft gun fire and service-to-air missiles. Sometimes the barrages were so thick, it was touch and go straight to the target and hopefully back.”
The 50th Anniversary of Marine Corps Air Station Rose Garden was held on May 19th-22nd in Arlington, Virginia. More than 300 veterans, and their families, turned out. (...)
https://www.armedforcesreunions.com/exclusive-veteran-interview-the-honorable-major-general-charles-bolden-jr-usmc-ret/An Interview with General Charles BoldenAlex CooleyNovember 22, 2013
https://thepolitic.org/article/an-interview-with-general-charles-bolden'We're counting on you,' former astronaut Charles Bolden Jr. tells Embry-Riddle graduates
Charles Bolden Jr. Nigel Cook/News-JournalOvercoming segregation to land a Naval Academy appointment Bolden, a fit 75-year-old Black man from Columbia, South Carolina, had a vision for his life at age 12. He had seen a TV program, "Men of Annapolis," which steered him to the Naval Academy. Being a person of color in the Jim Crow South didn't deter him.
In order to get a military academy appointment, he needed a letter of recommendation from his congressman, Albert Watson, or one of his U.S. senators, Olin D. Johnston or Strom Thurmond. All three supported segregationist policies and Bolden didn't get anywhere with them despite starting a letter-writing campaign when he was a ninth-grader.
So he wrote Lyndon Johnson, the vice president who became president when John Kennedy was assassinated in Bolden's senior year of high school.
"I wasn’t foolhardy, so I applied to a couple of other schools," he said. "So I was accepted at Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, but I wanted to go to the Naval Academy."
Johnson didn't respond directly, but a Navy recruiter visited Bolden and he was able to get a recommendation from William Dawson, a Black congressman from Chicago who had opposed efforts after World War II to re-segregate the military. (...)
https://eu.news-journalonline.com/story/news/education/2022/05/12/erau-commencement-speaker-charles-bolden-jr-former-astronaut-shares-journey-jim-crow-south-space/9677241002/Former chief of NASA urges lifting China banhttps://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201901/14/WS5c3bc831a3106c65c34e422f.htmlhttps://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/science/former-nasa-chief-uae-s-space-programme-is-helping-humanity-1.783690https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/multimedia/exp21_launch_bolden.htmlhttps://www.axiomspace.com/team/charlie-boldenhttps://twitter.com/airandspace/status/1825674418192003496Happy birthday to pilot, astronaut, and former NASA administrator Gen. Charlie Bolden! 🥳🎂
In 2019, Bolden received our Trophy for Lifetime Achievement in recognition of his pioneering career: https://s.si.edu/46RVRoQ
Wątek: CF Bolden, Jr. - 19.08.1946 (Przeczytany 1879 razy)