bolden, charles

"Sail the stars with astronaut Charlie Bolden as he recounts his amazing shuttle missions, including deploying the Hubble Space Telescope, training with Sally Ride, and leading the first US space mission that included a Russian cosmonaut as a crew member. Charlie even got to congratulate Star Wars creator George Lucas at the Academy Awards from space! Follow Charlie's incredible story, from watching movies as a kid about Flash Gordon flying to Mars from the balcony where Black people had to sit all the way to becoming the first Black NASA Administrator"--OCLC.

Profiles a man who fought to get into the U.S. Naval Academy, served as a pilot during the Vietnam Conflict, piloted the space shuttle Columbia three times, and later became a major general in the Marines.