...Bolden Will Be a Great Choice for NASA!

Boldin is a leading expert on manned space flight.
And is over qualified it appears, I would think
Sec of Defense or greater is in his future.



GATHERING OF EAGLES
MAJ GEN CHARLES F. BOLDEN, JR. USMC

by Paul D. Mackenzie, Major, United States Marine Corps
A Research Report Submitted to the Faculty In Partial Fulfillment
of the Graduation Requirements

Excerpts;

"But there was one thing that set him apart from every other pilot in his new
squadron: he was the only black officer in VMA(AW)-533, and one of only
two black aviators stationed at the Nam Phong airbase. He would face this
challenge as he had growing up in the segregated South, with quiet grace
and steely determination. And they would take him to the stars - as the
first black Marine space shuttle astronaut and only the second
African-American general officer aviator in Corps history."

"Commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps, he received his
"Wings of Gold" in May 1970 as an A-6A Intruder pilot. From June 1972 to
June 1973, he flew more than 100 combat missions into North and South
Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos with Marine All-Weather Attack Squadron 533.
Following two years as a recruiting officer in Los Angeles and various
assignments at Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, California, Bolden graduated
from the U.S. Navy Test Pilot School in June 1979. He spent the next year as
an ordnance test pilot at the Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, Maryland,
flying numerous projects in the A-6E Intruder, EA-6B Prowler and A-7C/E
Corsair II. Selected as a NASA astronaut candidate in May 1980, he qualified
as a space shuttle pilot in August 1981, becoming the first black Marine
astronaut. His first shuttle mission, STS-61C aboard Columbia from 12-18
January 1986, saw the successful deployment of the SATCOM KU-1
telecommunications satellite."

"As pilot of the Space Shuttle Discovery from 24-29 April 1990, Bolden
and the STS-31 crew launched the Hubble Space Telescope
while orbiting the Earth from a record-setting altitude of 400 miles. On his
third shuttle mission, from 24 March to 2 April 1992, he commanded STS-45
aboard Atlantis, carrying the first Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and
Science (ATLAS-1). Following that mission, he served as assistant deputy
administrator for NASA in Washington, DC, until taking command of STS-60
aboard Discovery in February 1994-the first flight of a Russian cosmonaut
aboard an American spacecraft. He left the space program after the Discovery
mission, having logged more than 680 hours in space during fourteen years with
NASA. Upon returning to the Marine Corps, he served as deputy commandant
of the U.S. Naval Academy,"

"Due to rising tensions with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in early 1998, Brig
Gen Bolden deployed to Kuwait as the commander of I MEF Forward. There
he worked for the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) deputy commander,
Marine Gen Anthony Zinni, helping to plan a coalition defense and counterattack
if Iraq reinvaded the small emirate (known as Operation DESERT THUNDER).
126 In July 1998, a month after returning home from the Persian Gulf, Bolden
received his second star and left for his second tour in the Far East as deputy
commander of U.S. Forces Japan. "

The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 put the Wing on a war footing, and
Maj Gen Bolden became heavily involved in planning for Operation ENDURING
FREEDOM, sending several units to combat in Afghanistan.


Enduring Legacy

Maj Gen and Mrs. Bolden currently reside in Houston, where they remain
extremely active in several professional and social activities: he heads his own
leadership consulting firm and travels around the world to speak to
schoolchildren on the virtues his own parents taught him. He continues to
advise NASA and other government leaders on the necessary risks and
boundless scientific rewards of manned spaceflight.


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Jonathan wrote:

ATK - Another Trip to K Street.

Elfritz Non Grata wrote:

On Sun, 17 May 2009 20:55:36 -0500, kT wrote:

Jonathan wrote:

ATK - Another Trip to K Street.

Is that where Nana is selling herself these days?

How's that ****ty rocket of yours coming along?

What's it called, Ares I - God of War?

How's that ****ty war doing too?

Got any national debt?

Got a good lawyer yet, Mosley?