{"id":401,"date":"2010-06-11T16:17:29","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T23:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=401"},"modified":"2010-06-11T16:32:51","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T23:32:51","slug":"charles-bolden-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/2010\/06\/11\/charles-bolden-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Boss Charles Bolden Shows Personality"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The new NASA Administrator,\u00a0Charles Bolden<\/a> showed a passionate side in his radio interview with Patt Morrison today.<\/p>\n

He gets teary-eyes about the retirement of the Space Shuttle but then turns his eyes toward the future. Bolden, a retired U.S. Marine Corps major general, is a former astronaut who flew on 4 shuttle missions. But despite his feelings, Bolden seems content with the notion that it is time to retire the shuttle and move on by limiting NASA’s role in Earth-orbit launch operations. Which must happen by default anyway, since NASA has no shuttle successor anywhere near the launchpad at this time.<\/p>\n

Taking a big step, Bolden conceded that future NASA astronauts will be flying on spacecraft mostly developed and built by private firms.<\/p>\n

You can listen to the interview below:<\/p>\n

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To download the entire audio file, click on\u00a0Download<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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