United Launch Alliance or ULA Vice President of Mission Operations James Sponnick addresses at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

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. The presentation took place during NASA Administrator Charles Bolden's tour of the facility.

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