Charles F. Bolden Jr.: “I support the goals of the NextGen Program, which is intended to give our Nation the advanced and fully capable air…”

I am dedicated to this, and we are doing what we promised we would do.

This is a time of opportunity for NASA to shape a promising future for the Nation's space program.

The Nation needs to become unafraid of exploration. We need to become unafraid of taking risks.

It frees us up to focus our efforts on getting humans beyond low-Earth orbit to places like an asteroid.