Charles Bolden has picked up the support of the Space Foundation, the Coalition for Space Exploration, and a key Republican senator.

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The Houston Chronicle is concerned that the United States will lose its leading role in space exploration. The Chronicle’s editors are primarily worried about a possible five-year gap in human spaceflight that could follow the retirement of the space shuttle in 2010. It may take NASA that long to get its new Constellation system online. In the meantime, NASA will be dependent upon the Russians for rides to the International […]