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Black History Month: The Black astronauts who have flown through space
Krikalev. Bolden then served as NASA's first Black administrator, a role he conducted until 2017. Selected in 1987 and becoming the first Black woman to fly into space, Mae C. Jemison conducted 44 ...
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Bill Nelson steps down as NASA chief as Trump begins 2nd term
Nelson and NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy left the agency on Monday (Jan. 20), the day that Donald Trump began his ...
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Chosen to be the first Black astronaut, he got to space six decades later
“Just like every other Black kid, you don’t get something and you convince yourself it wasn’t that important anyway,” Charles Bolden Jr., a former NASA administrator and Dwight’s ...
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NASA official backed after saying outreach to Muslims is a priority
In a June 30 interview on June 30 with Al Jazeera, Charles Bolden said that "When I became the NASA administrator — or before I became the NASA administrator — (President Obama) charged me ...
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Obama Tasks NASA Chief With Muslim Relations
President Barack Obama wants NASA chief Charles Bolden to engage Muslim nations. Mr. Bolden has repeatedly said future trips to Mars and elsewhere won't be possible without extensive international ...
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NASA completes James Webb Space Telescope that will replace the Hubble
That telescope is called the James Webb Space Telescope, and on Nov. 2, NASA administrator Charles Bolden announced that construction on the telescope is complete. This is a monster telescope that ...