{"id":8153,"date":"2013-08-16T11:12:39","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T18:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/?p=8153"},"modified":"2013-08-16T11:14:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T18:14:19","slug":"nasa-cafe-aims-and-goals-converge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/nasa-cafe-aims-and-goals-converge\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA, CAFE Aims and Goals Converge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charles F. Bolden, Jr.,<\/a> a retired U. S. Marine Corps Major General, astronaut and now NASA Administrator, \u00a0had enough adventures in any one of his careers to have made several who\u2019s who lists.\u00a0 The twelfth administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, his previous careers included 34-years in the Marine Corps during which he spent 14 years as a member of NASA’s Astronaut Office, \u00a0traveled to orbit four times on the space shuttle, deployed the Hubble Space Telescope, and flew on the first U. S.-Russian joint shuttle mission.<\/p>\n

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Charles Bolden; fighter pilot, astronaut, NASA administrator<\/p><\/div>\n

As a Marine fighter pilot, he flew over 100 combat missions during the Vietnam conflict; and during the first half of 1998, served as Commanding General of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force Forward in support of Operation Desert Thunder in Kuwait.<\/p>\n

According to his NASA biography, \u201cBolden’s many military decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal and the Distinguished Flying Cross. He was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in May 2006.\u201d<\/p>\n

As with most astronauts, his academic credentials are impressive, since he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical science in 1968, and a Master of Science degree in systems management.<\/p>\n

Bolden served, among other duties too numerous to list here, as the Commanding General of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, California from 2000 until 2002 before retiring from the Corps in 2003.<\/p>\n

He presented at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics meeting, Aviation 2013<\/a>, in Los Angeles, California on August 14.\u00a0 His keynote address, “Embracing a World of Change: NASA’s Aeronautics Research Strategy,”<\/a> also embraced a good many of the technologies espoused by the CAFE Foundation.<\/p>\n

Speaking before the gathering of the nation’s leading aviation engineers and managers, he noted the contribution that NASA-developed technologies have made to America\u2019s aerial commerce.<\/p>\n

“Nearly every aircraft flying and air traffic management system now in use includes NASA-supported technologies that improve efficiency and safety.\u00a0 This new vision will expand on that by fully integrating into aviation advances in other industries and parts of the economy to meet the future demands for global mobility in ways we can only begin to imagine today.”<\/p>\n