宇航员查尔斯·博尔登准备脱离轨道

STS-60 commander Charles F. Bolden is seen at the commander’s station on the forward flight deck of the space shuttle Discovery. He is wearing the orange launch and entry suit. Bolden and his crewmates performed proximity operations with the Russian Mir space station.
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Astronaut Charles F. Bolden, STS-60 commander, sits at the commander’s station on the forward flight deck of the space shuttle Discovery in this image from February 1994. While aboard Discovery, the crew attempted to deploy the Wake Shield Facility-1, a deployable/retrievable experiment platform designed to leave a vacuum wake in low earth orbit that is 10,000 times greater than achievable on Earth. The crew also conducted in-flight medical and radiological investigations and spoke with world leaders from space.

Bolden was a member of NASA’s Astronaut Office for 14 years. After joining the office in 1980, he traveled to orbit four times aboard the space shuttle between 1986 and 1994, commanding two of the missions and piloting two others.

He then became the 12th NASA Administrator. During his tenure, the agency’s support of commercial space transportation systems for reaching low Earth orbit enabled successful commercial cargo resupply of the space station and significant progress toward returning the capability for American companies to launch astronauts from American soil by 2017. Bolden also supported NASA’s contributions toward development of developing cleaner, faster, and quieter airplanes. The agency’s dynamic science activities under Bolden include an unprecedented landing on Mars with the Curiosity rover, launch of a spacecraft to Jupiter, enhancing the nation’s fleet of Earth-observing satellites, and continued progress toward the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope.

Watch the first episode of “The Color of Space: The Series” and delve deep into the extraordinary life of Charlie Bolden.

Credit: NASA

STS-60指挥官查尔斯·F·博尔登出现在发现号航天飞机前飞行甲板上的指挥官站。他穿着橙色的发射和进入服。博尔登和他的队友与俄罗斯和平号空间站进行了近距离操作。
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在这张1994年2月的照片中，宇航员查理·F·博尔登，STS-60指挥官，坐在发现号航天飞机前飞行甲板的指挥官位置上。在发现号上时，机组人员试图部署尾流屏蔽设施-1，这是一个可展开/可回收的实验平台，旨在在低地球轨道上留下比地球上可实现的大10,000倍的真空尾流。机组人员还进行了飞行中的医学和放射学调查，并从太空与世界各国领导人进行了交谈。

博尔登在NASA宇航员办公室工作了14年。在1980年加入办公室后，他在1986年至1994年期间四次乘坐航天飞机前往轨道，指挥了其中两次任务并驾驶了另外两次任务。

随后，他成为NASA第12任局长。在他任职期间，该机构支持商业太空运输系统到达近地轨道，使空间站的商业货物补给得以成功进行，并在2017年之前恢复美国公司从美国本土发射宇航员的能力方面取得了重大进展。博尔登还支持NASA为开发更清洁、更快速、更安静的飞机所做的贡献。在博尔登的领导下，该机构的动态科学活动包括好奇号火星车史无前例地登陆火星，向木星发射航天器，增强美国的地球观测卫星舰队，以及继续推进詹姆斯·韦伯太空望远镜的发射。

观看“太空的颜色：系列”的第一集，深入了解查理·博尔登非凡的一生。

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