NASA chief Charles Bolden Jr. at the National Press Club

STS-133 Discovery
Fuel is loaded into the space shuttle Discovery as she sits on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011.
AP Photo/John Raoux

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