Outside Gainesville Elementary School a NASA Explorer School in Gainesville Ga. school staff members pose.

Outside Gainesville Elementary School, a NASA Explorer School in Gainesville, Ga., school staff members pose for this photo with Jim Jennings (far left), deputy associate administrator for Institutions and Asset Management at NASA Headquarters; astronaut Leland Melvin (center); and Dr. Woodrow Whitlow (far right), KSC deputy director. Jennings visited the school to share the new vision for space exploration with the next generation of explorers. Whitlow and Melvin accompanied him and talked with students about our destiny as explorers, NASA’s stepping stone approach to exploring Earth, the Moon, Mars and beyond, how space impacts our lives, and how people and machines rely on each other in space.