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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – On a tour of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden steps inside one of the Ares I-X segments in the Vehicle Assembly Building with NASA engineer Trent Smith. Bolden is touring several facilities at Kennedy involved with NASA's Constellation Program. Bolden also was at Kennedy for several events, including the landing of space shuttle Endeavour's STS-127 mission and the signing of the joint NASA-Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency agreement defining the terms of cooperation between the agencies on the Global Precipitation Measurement, or GPM, mission. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett