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President Barack Obama has nominated retired Marine Maj. Gen. and former astronaut Charles Bolden to be the head of NASA. Bolden is currently an Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard.

Photograph courtesy Eliseeva Evgenia

Leadership Initiative Fellow Bolden nominated to lead NASA

Retired Marine Maj. Gen. and former astronaut Charles Bolden was nominated to be the head of NASA on Saturday (May 23), interrupting his stay at Harvard as an Advanced Leadership Fellow.

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