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Always been a bit of a Space Cadet, so I was gutted that I missed out on going to see Major General Charles F Bolden when he visited Spaceport at Seacombe Ferry. For anyone who's interested in Space travel, he joined NASA back in 1980, he was one of if not the first black mission controller, has clocked more than 680 hours in space, and in 1994 this was the commander of the Space Shuttle Discovery (the historic first joint U.S./Russian Space Shuttle mission involving the participation of a Russian Cosmonaut as a mission specialist crew member).
General Bolden visited the Spaceport at Seacombe Ferry before going to Birkenhead Sixth Form College to speak to students about his career, and encouraged them to never let other people tell them what they cannot do.
Maj Gen Bolden told students in Wirral: “I want everyone to realise you should never let people tell you what you can and can’t do.“I didn’t apply for Nasa the first time round, because I thought you had to be a tall, blond, blue-eyed fighter pilot, I was too chicken.
When he first entered the shuttle programme, he said he felt frustrated: “I walked into Nasa mission control and there were no black controllers.“There are now. I guess I bit my lip at the time, but I learned it was not Nasa’s fault. Blacks just didn't apply, so when I talk to young people, I tell them to get with it.”
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