Not willing to settle for one of those old-timey press releases, Sen. Bill Nelson provided a video statement (below) about the nomination of Charles Bolden as NASA administrator. “When people get to know Charlie Bolden, you’ll see why the president picked him,” Nelson, Bolden’s leading advocate for the job, said. “He’s a patriot, a leader, and a visionary, and he understands the workings of NASA and the importance of America remaining a leader in science and technology through space exploration.”
Later in the statement: “I trusted Charlie with my life, and a lot of other people did so, and that’s why we feel so strongly about him,” Nelson said, referring to the STS-61C shuttle mission—the last shuttle mission before the Challenger accident—where Bolden and Nelson were crewmates.
“At NASA it’s no ordinary job: he’s going to face budgetary constraints, technical issues, the remaining shuttle launches and the pending retirement of the space shuttle,” Nelson continued. “He needs, and he has to, restore that wonder that space exploration provides, and he needs to carry out the president’s mission, and that is to have us on the Moon by 2020.”
[…] Bill Nelson said, “…“When people get to know Charlie Bolden, you’ll see why the president picked him,†Nelson, Bolden’s leading advocate for the job, […]
I’m sure the Bolden/Garver connection would be fine for NASA.
But, in the real world where an under performing economy is still on the menu. NASA will have to earn its dinner. Public funding for NASA be contingent on the public witnessing successful human space flight endeavours involving true destinations like Moon and Mars. To facilitate this performance nuclear space technology needs to be taken seriously.