Bolden Stands His Ground

Remarks by Charles Bolden at the Washington Space Business Roundtable, Satellite 2010 Conference
“Commercial providers have long carried our most valuable payloads to space for the nation and have been integral to every human spaceflight mission since the beginning. My guess is that the American workers who have successfully built and launched the Atlas V 20 times in a row would disagree that US commercial spaceflight is untried or untested.”
NASA Chief Bolden Sees Opportunities for Industry, Reuters
“NASA Administrator Charles Bolden defended the U.S. space agency’s budget on Tuesday and said its focus on commercial space transportation would provide “incredible opportunities” for U.S. companies. “This budget is good for NASA because it sets the agency on a sustainable path that is tightly linked to our nation’s interests,” Bolden told space industry executives at the Satellite 2010 conference. One of few agencies to get a top-line budget increase, NASA’s funding is due to increase by $6 billion over the next five years, Bolden said.”