Charles Bolden:

This is from an old Navy/Marine Corps News program from February 1995. What else is great about Bolden?

Graduate of Annapolis
Marine Test pilot
100+ missions over Vietnam
680+ hours in space
4 Shuttle missions
General USMC (ret.)
And a nice guy, to boot...

From this article:

"Bolden says NASA needs to inspire a new generation of scientists and engineers who will help replace an aging workforce and develop the technologies for a human mission to Mars, which he wants, but which he says is two decades away. He acknowledged noticing a different attitude towards space among schoolchildren. "If I go to a classroom today, it's different than when I went when I was an astronaut in 1980," he said. "I could ask, 'How many of you want to be an astronaut?' -- and every hand went up. When I go today and ask that question, I may see three hands. All of them want to go into business.""

Damn kids (shakes fist)....

Read Bolden's statement to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation here.