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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana, third from left, and NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden, fourth from right, gather with participants, subject matter experts and volunteers in front of the Rocket Garden at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida during the 2013 International Space Apps Challenge. The group took a brief break before returning to The Astronaut Memorial Foundation’s Center for Space Education to continue working on their challenges. During the worldwide two-day challenge, more than 9,000 people and 484 organizations came together in 83 cities across 44 countries, as well as online, to develop new ways of solving challenges that NASA faces. At Kennedy, four teams brainstormed ideas with subject matter experts and others and worked nearly 32 hours straight to present their concepts to a panel of three technical and non-technical judges. Challenges tackled at Kennedy were: Deployable Greenhouse, Kennedy Space Center 2040, Seven Minutes of Science, and Moonville – Lunar Industry Game. Photo credit: NASA_Charisse Nahser