NASA Administrator Charles Bolden outlined the agency's post-shuttle future in a speech to media and members at the National Press Club in Washington.
Bolden told the luncheon gathering and a national television audience that NASA will continue its human space exploration efforts aboard the International Space Station, and by developing new technologies and capabilities to send future generations to multiple destinations beyond low Earth orbit. Bolden also spoke of NASA's continued dedication to sending robotic science missions into the solar system and beyond, and innovation in aeronautics research.
Guest speaker, astronaut Mark Kelly, talked about the importance of the International Space Station, a destination he visited on each of his four shuttle flights, and the continuing recovery of his wife, Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
