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NASA informed me that they had chosen me to attend their special astronautics training program at the Kennedy Space Center!

Whether or not privatization saves money, it has already changed attitudes and reversed roles at the Kennedy Space Center.

The space shuttle Endeavour blasted off into the bright morning sky as a cheer went up across the Kennedy Space Center.

Atlantis lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Thursday, carrying seven astronauts and a European built research module.

Completing a 16 day mission, Endeavour made a it's final landing at Kennedy Space Center in the dark, early morning hours of June 1.

NASA has cancelled the launch of Endeavour for the fifth time Monday due to thunderstorms near the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Standing on the grounds of Kennedy Space Center, facing the launch pad as a space shuttle lifts off, is an experience that defies words.

It is home to the John F. Kennedy Space Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known as NASA.

Like the Ares I-X and NASA shuttles, the towering Saturn V launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The space shuttle Discovery is set to land for the last time Wednesday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Discovery was towed from its hangar and into the Nasa's Kennedy Space Center's vehicle assembly building in Florida on Thursday .

The space shuttle Atlantis will remain here at the Kennedy Space Center, where it will eventually go on public display.

Atlantis is due to blast off on Friday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, bound for the International Space Station.

The shuttle landed at Kennedy Space Center in Florida late Sunday night, wrapping up a successful two-week mission.

Space Shuttle Atlantis hangs suspended from a sling inside the vehicle assembly building at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

They're giving the crew time to pack up and get ready for a possible one-day early return to Kennedy Space Center.

The seven-member crew of Endeavour is hoping the weather will clear at Kennedy Space Center for the latest launch attempt Tuesday evening.

What we're bringing for our users is basically an immersive experience of a huge portion of the NASA Kennedy Space Center facility.

The 1-X is being moved out of the giant Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center.

The U. S. space shuttle Discovery has landed safely at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida after a 13-day mission.

A hurricane watch is posted from north of the Kennedy Space Center on the Atlantic side of Florida to South of Naples on the Gulf.

The space shuttle Atlantis lifts off for the last time Friday, May 14, 2010, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The Kennedy Space Center Visitor? s Complex is selling tickets but other venues are available, much like during shuttle launches.

Plans call for Atlantis to spend its retirement at the privately operated Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

The space shuttle landed safely at Kennedy Space Center in Florida the last hour.

They are giving the crew time to pack up and get ready for a possible one-day-early-return at Kennedy Space Center.

In the NASH Kennedy space center launching site, two space shuttles - Endeavour and Atlantis stood on the launcher side by side.

"Atlantis" No. 8 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the U. S. space shuttle project implementation 135th and final flight.

Next, the NASA Railroad train will drive the segments over the IndianRiver and onto NASA Kennedy Space Center property.

BAE Systems' Melbourne facility also supports the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

The space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on its last mission.

The seven-person crew aboard Endeavour lifted off during a rare nighttime launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

At the Kennedy Space Center, twin rovers are going through the final check-out.

Discovery blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida and rose toward orbit shortly before sunrise on Monday.

AMS will now be installed in a clean room at the Kennedy Space Center for more tests.

If weather conditions are favorable, returning space shuttles land at Kennedy Space Center.

Melbourne, about an hour south of Kennedy Space Center, is part of Florida's "space coast. "

The management and communications support work will take place at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

A crane dismantles another section of the fixed service structure on Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

It will be launched vertically from remodeled Apollo pads at the John F. Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla.

If all goes well, the Atlantis astronauts will celebrate Thanksgiving in space and land back at the Kennedy Space Center on Nov.

Weather reports were coming in from the landing site at the Kennedy Space Center, in Florida.

It's 9 a. m. , and 100 employees of the Kennedy Space Center are lining up for the chance to do some freelance work.

Space shuttle Discovery's tail fin clears the hangar door of Orbiter Processing Facility-2 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Photographers take images as the Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off May 14, 2010 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

At Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, work begins to install the newly arrived space shuttle Atlantis on the pad.

The space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Hundreds of people gathered at the Kennedy Space Center Visitors Center to watch the shuttle return.

On April 5, visitors to Kennedy Space Center saw these colorful clouds, twisting and drifting through dawn skies.

At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Discovery's STS-133 crew on the Shuttle Landing Facility runway.

An Osprey preparing to dive. Photographed at Kennedy Space Center.

Jonny Dymond witnessed the historic lift-off from the Kennedy Space Center.

In 1958 to train professionals working in the space program at what is now Kennedy Space Center.

Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-135 takes off near the Visitors Center at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida July 8, 2011.

The space shuttle Endeavour is due back at the Kennedy Space Center.

Endeavour is due back at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday.

Today in 1970, with an explosion of fire and smoke, Apollo 13 was launched from the Kennedy Space Center.

"Discovery" scheduled for 9 at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida landing.

Picture a huge railgun rising from the ground at Kennedy Space Center.

The space shuttle Discovery is prepared for launch at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Feb.

About 3 weeks before launch, the food lockers are shipped to Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida.

Explanation: When dawn broke over Kennedy Space Center on Monday, May 16, the space shuttle orbiter Endeavour still stood on pad 39A.

When the orbiter returns from space, it lands at Kennedy Space Center.

An Osprey flies in front of the US flag painted on the Vehicle Assembly Building March 26, 2008, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The space shuttle Endeavour lifts off to begin mission STS-123 at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida March 11, 2008.

The astronauts plan to fly to the Kennedy Space Center on 12 October.

He announced his own plan for space exploration in a speech last year at the Kennedy Space Center.

There are three Saturday landing opportunities at both Kennedy Space Center and Edwards Air Force Base, starting at 9: 16 a. m.

The launching is scheduled for 4: 39 a. m. at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Atlantis is scheduled to undock from the space station May 23 and land back at the Kennedy Space Center around 8: 44 a. m. on May 26.

A colorfully-lit cloud left by Space Shuttle Discovery hovers over Pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center April 5, 2010, in Cape Canaveral.

The space shuttle Challenger lifts off Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center Florida at 11: 38 am EST on January 28 1986.

It reached Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center at 9: 17 a. m. Eastern after a 4. 2-mile trip that took nearly eight hours.

Short-term forecasting of thunderstorms using Doppler radar in the vicinity of Kennedy Space Center

By Jonathan Amos BBC science correspondent, Kennedy Space Center

Light fantastic: An arc of fire is created by Discovery during a night launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in 2009

New Horizons lifts off from Kennedy Space Center