Sam Durrance are visiting NASA Explorer Schools in Florida and Georgia to share America's new vision for space exploration with the next generation of explorers.

Astronaut Sam Durrance (left) and Center Director Jim Kennedy (right) talk to the two students who greeted their arrival at Oscar Patterson Elementary Magnet School in Panama City, Fla. Kennedy and other NASA-KSC officials are visiting NASA Explorer Schools in Florida and Georgia to share America’s new vision for space exploration with the next generation of explorers. Kennedy is talking 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.