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Discovery: Lifechangers: Charles Bolden

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Lifechangers: Charles Bolden

24/04/2017 GMT

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In Lifechangers, Kevin Fong talks to people about their lives in science.

Major General Charles Bolden – a former NASA administrator – talks to Kevin Fong about his extraordinary life, from childhood in racially segregated South Carolina to the first African American to command a space shuttle. He had originally hoped to join the Navy, but was unable to as an African American. Although Charles refused to take no for an answer and after much petitioning he was accepted. From there he reached for the stars.

Image: Charlie Bolden,  © Alex Wong/Getty Images

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