RMGE4GKN–Nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate, retired Marine Corps Major General Charles Frank Bolden, Jr. was appointed NASA’s twelth Administrator on July 17, 2009. Bolden’s career with NASA began when he was selected as an astronaut candidate in 1980. He flew on a number of Space Shuttle missions, piloting STS-61C and STS-31 and commanding STS-45 and STS-60, and also held a number of technical positions within the agency. Bolden received his bachelor's degree in electrical science from the United States Naval Academy and his master's in Systems Management from the Un
RME89T2N–The Space Shuttle Atlantis blazes through the night sky to begin the STS-86 mission, slated to be the seventh of nine planned dockings of the Space Shuttle with the Russian Space Station Mir. Liftoff on September 25 from Launch Pad 39A was at 10:34 p.m. EDT, within seconds of the preferred time, during a six minute, 45 second launch window. The 10 day flight will include the transfer of the sixth U.S. astronaut to live and work aboard the Mir. After the docking, STS-86 Mission Specialist David A. Wolf will become a member of the Mir 24 crew, replacing astronaut C. Michael Foale, who will retur
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