Bolden earned his BS in electrical science from the US Naval Academy and MS in systems management from the University of Southern California. Bolden Group is a consortium of accomplished leaders and problem solvers with extensive experience leading complex organizations in challenging environments. Charles Bolden è un militare e astronauta statunitense, amministratore della NASA dal 17 luglio 2009 al 20 gennaio 2017. On his first of four space flights (all of which launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida), he served as Pilot.
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He was a US Department of State Science Envoy for Space (2018–19) and is an independent director of the LORD Corporation, Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina in addition to numerous other professional affiliations. Charles Bolden became an astronaut in 1981. His tenure included the triumph of the Mars Curiosity Rover landing, the success of the Juno mission that is enhancing knowledge of the planet Jupiter, an increase in the number of Earth observation satellites, and progress toward the expected 2020 launch of the James Webb Space Telescope. Bolden oversaw the shift toward commercial space initiatives handling ISS resupply and created the Space Technology Mission Directorate, responsible for developing the technology to make future exploration missions successful.
He also served as chief of NASA’s Safety Division in the wake of the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.Īs NASA administrator, Maj. He began his duties as head of the agency on July 17, 2009. Senate as the 12th Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He piloted the Space Shuttles Columbia in 1986 (STS-61C) and, in 1990, Discovery (STS-31), the mission that deployed the Hubble Space Telescope, and he was mission commander on Space Shuttles Atlantis in 1992 (STS-45) and Discovery in 1994 (STS-60). Charles Frank Bolden, Jr., (USMC-Ret.) was nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. He is now president and CEO of the Bolden Consulting Group LLC.ĭuring his 34-year career with the Marine Corps, he worked in NASA’s Astronaut Office, during which he traveled into orbit four times and logged over 680 hours in space. was NASA administrator from 2009 to 2017, overseeing the transition from the Space Shuttle system to a new era of exploration focused on the International Space Station (ISS) and aeronautics technology development.
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