Bolden Statement on China Trip
NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden issued a press release today summarizing his October 16-21 trip to China.
Saying that NASA met its objectives for the visit, but stressing that it “did not include consideration of any specific proposals for cooperation,” Mr. Bolden said they reached a “common understanding of the importance of transparency, reciprocity, and mutual benefit as the underlying principles of any future interaction between our two nations in the area of human spaceflight.”
The trip was controversial with some member of Congress, including Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA), the ranking member of the House appropriations subcommittee that funds NASA. He insisted in a letter to Mr. Bolden before the trip on assurances that no specific cooperative human space flight programs would be discussed.
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