On April 28, 1992, Bolden was appointed Assistant Deputy Administrator, NASA Headquarters, Washington D.C. Following 143 orbits of Earth, Atlantis landed at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on April 2, 1992. This was also the first spaceflight commanded by an African-American. On March 24, 1992, Charles Bolden commanded STS-45 Atlantis, which was the first Spacelab mission dedicated to NASA’s Mission to Planet Earth program. Following 75 orbits of Earth in 121 hours, Discovery landed at Edwards Air Force Base, California. The mission conducted experiments in astrophysics and materials processing and ended after 96 orbits of Earth, with a successful night landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California.įrom April 24 to 29, 1990 Bolden was Pilot on Discovery, STS-31 the mission that deployed the Hubble Space Telescope. On his first of four space flights (all of which launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida), he served as Pilot for STS-61C Columbia from January 12 to 18, 1986. He has logged more than 5,000 hours flying time.Ĭharles Bolden became an astronaut in 1981. While there, he served as an ordnance test pilot and flew numerous test projects in the A-6E, EA-6B, and A-7C/E airplanes. Naval Test Pilot School at Patuxent River, Maryland, and was assigned to the Naval Air Test Center’s Systems Engineering and Strike Aircraft Test Directorates. Bolden then began a two-year tour as a Marine Corps officer selection and recruiting officer in Los Angeles, California, followed by three years at the Marine Corps Air Station in El Toro, California. He flew more than 100 combat sorties over North and South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, in the A-6A Intruder, while assigned to VMA (AW)-533 at Nam Phong, Thailand from June 1972 to June 1973.
He underwent flight training at Pensacola, Florida Meridian, Mississippi and Kingsville, Texas, before being designated a naval aviator in May 1970. Marine Corps after graduating from Annapolis. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Science from the United States Naval Academy in 1968, and a Master of Science degree in Systems Management from the University of Southern California in 1977.īolden was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. The son of two educators, he graduated from C.A. was born on August 19, 1946, in Columbia, South Carolina.
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