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ASTRONAUT VISITS DREAMGIRL

Sheryl Lee Ralph of he Broadway show "Dreamgirls" is visited backstage by Major Charles F. Bolden, the first black astronaut, in New York, Feb. 16, 1983. (AP Photo/Nancy Kaye)

This photo provided by NASA shows Charles Bolden, Nominee for Administrator of NASA, testifying at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Bill Ingalls, NASA)

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden gives a presentation to university students in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, Feb. 23, 2015. Bolden is in Brasilia to meet with authorities from the Brazilian Space Agency and the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation regarding cooperation in innovation, scientific research and academia between Brazil and the U.S. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

This image shows NASA Administrator Charles Bolden during a visit to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., on Thursday, May 23, 2013. Bolden inspected a prototype spacecraft engine that could power an audacious mission to lasso an asteroid and tow it closer to Earth for astronauts to explore. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

DISCOVERY'S FINAL LAUNCH, 2011

Discovery's final launch being watched by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden (born 1946). This launch took place at 16:53 EDT on 24 February 2011, from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA. Bolden, the head of NASA, is watching from the firing room with other management team members. Discovery was part of NASA's Space Shuttle program. It flew 39 missions over a period of 26 years, being retired from service in March 2011. This launch was part of its final mission, STS-133, which took place from 24 February to 9 March 2011. (KEYSTONE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/NASA)

NEW NASA HEAD CHARLES BOLDEN

New NASA head Charles Bolden seen in the Cosmonauts Parkway at the Cosmonaut Training Center. (KEYSTONE/SPUTNIK/Mikhail Fomichev)

NEW NASA HEAD CHARLES BOLDEN

New NASA head Charles Bolden seen in the Cosmonauts Parkway at the Cosmonaut Training Center. (KEYSTONE/SPUTNIK/Mikhail Fomichev)

NASA: TRAINING, 1993. /nAstronauts Charles Bolden Jr. and Kenneth Reightler Jr. practicing in-flight duties in the Space Shuttle mockup at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Photograph, 1993. (KEYSTONE/THE GRANGER COLLECTION/)

SPACE SHUTTLE LAUNCH

"The space shuttle Discovery leaving the launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on April 24th, 1990. Mission STS-31 carries the Hubble Space Telescope. Once in orbit it will be able to view objects 50 times fainter and 7 times more distant than is possible with existing ground based optical telescopes. Crew members are Commander Loren J. Shriver; Pilot Charles F. Bolden Jr.; and Mission Specialists Kathryn D. Sullivan, Steven A. Hawley, and Bruce McCandless II." (KEYSTONE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/NASA)

NASA: TRAINING, 1991. /nThe crew of the STS-45 mission in zero gravity training. Clockwise from top: Dirk Frimout, Michael Foale, Brian Duffy, Charles Chappell, Kathryn Sullivan, Charles Bolden and Byron Lichtenberg. Photograph, 1991. (KEYSTONE/THE GRANGER COLLECTION/)

SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA. /nCrew insignia of mission STS-61-C of the Space Shuttle Columbia, 1985. (KEYSTONE/THE GRANGER COLLECTION/)

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, center, looks at the propulsion subsystem unit for NASA's Earth satellite mission Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) as he is joined by Charles Elachi, left, director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and system engineer Wayne Lee during a tour of two new Earth-observing missions under construction at NASA's JPL on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013, in Pasadena, Calif. The missions are scheduled to launch in 2014. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

USA NASA SPACEFLIGHT CONTRACTS

epa04403519 (L-R) NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Kennedy Space Center Director Robert Cabana and Commercial Crew Program Manager Kathy Lueders react during a press conference at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, 16 September 2014. Aerospace giant Boeing and upstart SpaceX will fly US astronauts to space aboard the first commercial spacecraft beginning in 2017, NASA said on 16 September. The announcement marks the next step in the US space programme, and brings the United States closer to resuming manned spaceflight after years of reliance on Russia to transport astronauts. EPA/JOE SKIPPER

USA SPACE PEOPLE GLENN DEATH

epa05678993 Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives Cliff Rosenberger, left, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, and US Secretary of State John Kerry pay their respects to former astronaut and U.S. Senator John Glenn as he lies in repose, under a United States Marine honor guard, in the Rotunda of the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, USA, 16 December 2016. Glenn was the first American to orbit the earth, in a 'Mercury' spaceship in 1962, and the oldest US astronaut when he joined in the Nasa's STS-95 mission in November 1998. Glenn also served four terms in US Congress as a Democratic Senator from Ohio. Glenn died on 08 December 2016 at age 95. EPA/NASA/Bill Ingalls HANDOUT MANDATORY CREDIT: (NASA/Bill Ingalls) EDITORIAL USE ONLY

NASA-SPACEX LEADERS, BOLDEN AND MUSK

NASA-SpaceX leaders, Bolden and Musk. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden (left, born 1946) congratulating SpaceX CEO and Chief Designer Elon Musk (right, born 1971) on the successful 31 May 2012 return of the Dragon capsule (in background). SpaceX's Dragon capsule resupplied the International Space Station (ISS). This was the first successful space mission by a private company. Photographed on 13 June 2012 at the SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies) facility in McGregor, Texas, USA. Bolden and Musk also thanked the more than 150 SpaceX employees. Bolden has been NASA Administrator since 2009. SpaceX was founded in 2002. (KEYSTONE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/NASA/Bill Ingalls/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

USA RAUMFAHRT NEIL ARMSTRONG TRAUERFEIER

In this photo provided by NASA, Apollo 11 Astronauts Michael Collins, left, NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, right, talk at a private memorial service celebrating the life of Neil Armstrong, Aug. 31, 2012, at the Camargo Club in Cincinnati. Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, died Saturday, Aug. 25. He was 82. (AP Photo/NASA, Bill Ingalls) MANDATORY CREDIT

USA MARS ROVER CURIOSITY LANDUNG

In a photo provided by NASA, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden congratulates NASA Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate John M. Grunsfeld after the Mars Science laboratory rover Curiosity successfully landed on Mars, Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Curiosity was designed to assess whether Mars ever had an environment able to support small life forms called microbes. (AP Photo/Bill Ingalls)

CHARLES BOLDEN AND ANATOLY PERMINOV

New NASA head Charles Bolden, left, and Anatoly Perminov, head of Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos), seen in the Cosmonauts Parkway at the Cosmonaut Training Center. (KEYSTONE/SPUTNIK/Mikhail Fomichev)

CHARLES BOLDEN AND ANATOLY PERMINOV

New NASA head Charles Bolden, left, and Anatoly Perminov, head of Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos), seen at the Cosmonaut Training Center. (KEYSTONE/SPUTNIK/Mikhail Fomichev)

USA RAUMFAHRT SPACE SHUTTLE ATLANTIS

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, speaks as the crew of Space Shuttle Atlantis stand near Space Shuttle Atlantis after landing at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla. Thursday, July 21, 2011. The landing of Atlantis marks the end of NASA's 30 year space shuttle program. (AP Photo/Scott Audette, Pool)

AFRICAN-AMERICAN ASTRONAUT CHARLES FRANK BOLDEN JR. (BORN 1946) FLEW ON FOUR SPACE SHUTTLE MISSIONS. HE WAS ALSO A NASA ADMINISTRATOR AND A UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS MAJOR GENERAL. BLUE FULL BODY FLIGHT SUIT WORN BY BOLDEN WITH ZIPPERS IN THE FRONT AND H

African-American astronaut Charles Frank Bolden Jr. (born 1946) flew on four Space Shuttle missions. He was also a NASA administrator and a United States Marine Corps Major General. Blue full body flight suit worn by Bolden with zippers in the front and has several pockets and patches on it. The front of the suit has three patches on the chest. On the PR breast is the mission patch for STS 61C and features a circular design with an image of the space shuttle and a band displaying the names of the mission's astronauts. On the PR breast is a circular NASA logo patch, above which is a leather nametag reading [CHARLES BOLDEN / MAJOR USMC]. The nametag is a dark leather with golden text and pilot's insignia. On the PR shoulder is a circular patch for the 1980 NASA Astronaut Groups 9, which features the year and a space shuttle launching with nineteen white stars. The PL shoulder has an American flag patch. There are Velcro straps at the waist and zippered sections on the arms and legs for adjustments. The legs have a number of zippered pockets. A manufacturer's tag with handwritten details is sewn to the inside of the suit. Flight suit worn by Charles F. Bolden during his first spaceflight, 1986. Creator: Gibson & Barnes. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/HERITAGE ART)

AFRICAN-AMERICAN ASTRONAUT CHARLES FRANK BOLDEN JR. (BORN 1946) FLEW ON FOUR SPACE SHUTTLE MISSIONS. HE WAS ALSO A NASA ADMINISTRATOR AND A UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS MAJOR GENERAL. USMC FLIGHT SUIT;A GREEN SYNTHETIC FIBER FLIGHT SUIT WORN BY BOLDEN.

African-American astronaut Charles Frank Bolden Jr. (born 1946) flew on four Space Shuttle missions. He was also a NASA administrator and a United States Marine Corps Major General. USMC Flight Suit;A green synthetic fiber flight suit worn by Bolden. Pilot flight suit and gear owned by Charles F. Bolden, ca. 2000. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/HERITAGE ART)