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Opinion: NASA Goes Badly Off Course

(Nov. 18) -- Last week, a panel of experts assembled at the request of Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., issued a report on cost and schedule problems with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the much-vaunted successor to the aging but still-productive Hubble Space Telescope. Its results are troubling not just for future...

Astronauts Vote From 220 Miles Above Earth

(Nov. 2) -- Americans on the ground aren't the only ones voting in the midterm elections. Three astronauts aboard the International Space Station are exercising their democratic right from 220 miles above the Earth. The three are voting in elections in the Houston area in Galveston and Harris counties, SPACE.com...

Astronauts Face New Frontier: Unemployment

(Feb. 26) -- For 40 years, the American astronaut has been an icon of bravery and derring-do. But could these elite fliers be about to get their pink slips? Under a proposal by President Barack Obama, NASA's campaign to send astronauts to the moon would be canceled, and the spaceship NASA has been building to replace the...

NASA Chief Takes Heat for Not Shooting for Moon

WASHINGTON (Feb. 2) – NASA Administrator Charles Bolden won a Distinguished Flying Cross as a combat pilot in Vietnam, but this week he's caught in a different kind of crossfire. Bolden inherited a program to return to the moon a full half-century after the first lunar program. On Monday, the White House canceled...

Charles Bolden News From the Web

05/25/12 SpaceX success boosts NASA's venture with... Source: USA Today Almost from the time he took over NASA in 2009, Charles F. Bolden Jr., has urged a skeptical Congress to replace the space shuttle with a rocket developed by a private company with the space agency's help.
05/25/12 NASA Administrator Calls Station Following SpaceX... Source: PR Newswire WASHINGTON , May 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden offered his congratulations to the International Space Station Expedition 31 crew and mission flight control teams at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and SpaceX's headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif. , following Friday's successful first-time berthing of a commercial company spacecraft, SpaceX's Dragon, to the space station.
05/24/12 NASA chief visits Wallops site Source: Eastern Shore News - Parksley VA NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden Jr. stopped by the Wallops Island Flight Facility Thursday evening for his first tour of the completed cargo module for the Cygnus spacecraft.
05/23/12 Degrees awarded at UMES Source: Somerset Herald - Princess Anne MD When Quiana Tilghman walked on stage at UMES to accept her diploma on Friday, it was due, in part, to a mother who encouraged her throughout her life.
05/23/12 NASA chief Bolden visits Wallops rocket launch site Source: Eastern Shore News - Parksley VA NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden Jr. stopped by the Wallops Island Flight Facility Thursday evening for his first tour of the completed cargo module for the Cygnus spacecraft.

Background on Charles Bolden

Charles Frank "Charlie" Bolden, Jr. (born August 19, 1946) is the current Administrator of NASA, a retired United States Marine Corps major general, and former NASA astronaut.

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