NASA Chief Scientist Waleed Abdalati addresses news media in Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

NASA Chief Scientist Waleed Abdalati addresses news media in Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. At the pad, a United Launch Alliance, or 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, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, James Sponnick, ULA vice president of Mission Operations and 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