KSC-2012-4589
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - United Launch Alliance, or ULA, Vice President of Mission Operations James Sponnick addresses news media at Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. At the pad, a ULA Atlas V rocket is being prepared for launch of the Radiation Belt Storm Probes, or RBSP, satellites. Speaking to members of the media are, from the left, Dr. Nicky Fox, deputy RBSP project scientist for the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, Sponnick and NASA Chief Scientist Waleed Abdalati. Bolden took a few dozen members of the news media on a tour of the space agency's Kennedy Space Center and adjacent Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Aug. 23, 2012 to show the progress being made for future government and commercial space endeavors that will begin from Florida's Space Coast. For more information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/news/kennedy-bolden-tour.html Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
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KSC-2012-4589
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August 23, 2012
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Kennedy Space Center, FL
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