NASA's Bolden Reflects on Shuttle to BBC

Former Major General and current NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden has given a tear-filled-but-determined interview to the BBC in which he reflects on the end of the space shuttle program and the battle to win over critics of the president's new exploration strategy. The BBC interview with Washington correspondent Philippa Thomas is worth the 4-minutes of time.

The veteran space shuttle pilot, who had the opportunity to deliver the Hubble Space Telescope to Space, said the space shuttle will not continue to fly to space after the final missions this year. The NASA Administrator indicated on April 15, 2010 in Florida, "the President is going to say, he is going to tell people about his vision for space exploration and he is going to them about how important it is that we do return to our roots in terms of technology development - the way we did in the days of Mercury, Gemini and Apollo."