Obama's NASA selection is a boost for manned spaceflight
Sunday, May 24, 2009 - 02:21
in Astronomy & Space
The choice of astronaut Charles Bolden as NASA administrator reassures many who feared that Obama was lukewarm on future manned missions. President Obama's selection Saturday of former astronaut Charles F. Bolden Jr. to head NASA gives a boost to the agency's manned space program and its stated goal of returning humans to the moon by 2020.