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Charles Bolden
Charles Bolden has logged more than 6,000
hours of flying time in his
lengthy aviation career. Bolden enlisted in
the Marine Corps after graduation from the Naval Academy and went on to
fly more than 100 combat missions in North and South Vietnam, Laos, and
Cambodia. Bolden graduated from the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School and flew
numerous test projects as an ordnance test pilot. In 1980, Bolden was
picked as an astronaut candidate. His space career has allowed him to
participate in many historic space flights, such as pilot of the Space
Shuttle Discovery in 1990, which successfully deployed the Hubble
telescope, and as commander of STS-60 in 1994, which marked the first
joint U.S./Russian Space Shuttle mission.
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