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Published online 27 May 2009 | Nature 459, 495 (2009) | doi:10.1038/459495a
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Former shuttle pilot nominated as NASA head
Charles Bolden lined up to take over space agency.
US President Barack Obama announced on 23 May that he is nominating Charles Bolden, a retired Marine general and former space-shuttle pilot, as NASA administrator.
The announcement came as the space shuttle Atlantis was finishing the last ever mission to the Hubble Space Telescope — fitting, in its way, as Bolden was the pilot on the mission that launched the telescope in 1990.
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