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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – From left, Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, Tina Palacio and Bolden's aide Kirk Sander leave the Vehicle Assembly Building after viewing the Ares I-X operations. Behind Palacios is Acting Associate Administrator of Exploration Systems Doug Cook, and at far right is Chief of Staff in the Office of the Administrator George Whitesides. 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