KSC Protectice Services - Working Dogs Feature Story.

K-9 Spike stands alert and ready for the next training exercise with his Handler Officer John McGee at Kennedy Space Center’s Protective Services Office in Florida on July 10, 2019. The center’s specially trained K-9s support the center 24/7, 365 days. Their main goal is to protect the Kennedy workforce and assets. Normal activities include sweeps of designated facilities, parking lots and random vehicle inspections at entrance gates. During rocket launches, they are out and about performing sweeps of facilities and launch site viewing areas. They cover Kennedy and the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.

K-9 Handler Officer Scott O’Rourke watches as K-9 LJ works his way through a row of bags and containers to locate one with a suspicious substance during a training exercise on July 10, 2019, at Kennedy Space Center’s Protective Services Office in Florida. The center’s specially trained K-9s support the center 24/7, 365 days. Their main goal is to protect the Kennedy workforce and assets. Normal activities include sweeps of designated facilities, parking lots and random vehicle inspections at entrance gates. During rocket launches, they are out and about performing sweeps of facilities and launch site viewing areas. They cover Kennedy and the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.

K-9 Handler Officer Scott O’Rourke watches as K-9 LJ selects the container with a suspicious substance during a training exercise on July 10, 2019, at Kennedy Space Center’s Protective Services Office in Florida. The center’s specially trained K-9s support the center 24/7, 365 days. Their main goal is to protect the Kennedy workforce and assets. Normal activities include sweeps of designated facilities, parking lots and random vehicle inspections at entrance gates. During rocket launches, they are out and about performing sweeps of facilities and launch site viewing areas. They cover Kennedy and the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.

K-9 Handler Officer John McGee watches as K-9 Spike works his way through a row of cars during a training exercise on July 10, 2019, at Kennedy Space Center’s Protective Services Office in Florida. The center’s specially trained K-9s support the center 24/7, 365 days. Their main goal is to protect the Kennedy workforce and assets. Normal activities include sweeps of designated facilities, parking lots and random vehicle inspections at entrance gates. During rocket launches, they are out and about performing sweeps of facilities and launch site viewing areas. They cover Kennedy and the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.

K-9 Handler Officer Scott O’Rourke watches as K-9 LJ works his way through a row of bags and containers to locate one with a suspicious substance during a training exercise on July 10, 2019, at Kennedy Space Center’s Protective Services Office in Florida. The center’s specially trained K-9s support the center 24/7, 365 days. Their main goal is to protect the Kennedy workforce and assets. Normal activities include sweeps of designated facilities, parking lots and random vehicle inspections at entrance gates. During rocket launches, they are out and about performing sweeps of facilities and launch site viewing areas. They cover Kennedy and the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.

K-9 Handler Officer Scott O’Rourke watches as K-9 LJ works his way through a row of bags and containers to locate one with a suspicious substance during a training exercise on July 10, 2019, at Kennedy Space Center’s Protective Services Office in Florida. The center’s specially trained K-9s support the center 24/7, 365 days. Their main goal is to protect the Kennedy workforce and assets. Normal activities include sweeps of designated facilities, parking lots and random vehicle inspections at entrance gates. During rocket launches, they are out and about performing sweeps of facilities and launch site viewing areas. They cover Kennedy and the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.

K-9 Spike is ready for the next training exercise with his Handler Officer John McGee at Kennedy Space Center’s Protective Services Office in Florida on July 10, 2019. The center’s specially trained K-9s support the center 24/7, 365 days. Their main goal is to protect the Kennedy workforce and assets. Normal activities include sweeps of designated facilities, parking lots and random vehicle inspections at entrance gates. During rocket launches, they are out and about performing sweeps of facilities and launch site viewing areas. They cover Kennedy and the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.

KSC Protectice Services - Working Dogs Feature Story.

K-9 Spike stands alert and ready for the next training exercise with his Handler Officer John McGee at Kennedy Space Center’s Protective Services Office in Florida on July 10, 2019. The center’s specially trained K-9s support the center 24/7, 365 days. Their main goal is to protect the Kennedy workforce and assets. Normal activities include sweeps of designated facilities, parking lots and random vehicle inspections at entrance gates. During rocket launches, they are out and about performing sweeps of facilities and launch site viewing areas. They cover Kennedy and the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.

K-9 Handler Officer Scott O’Rourke watches as K-9 LJ stops at the container with a suspicious substance during a training exercise on July 10, 2019, at Kennedy Space Center’s Protective Services Office in Florida. The center’s specially trained K-9s support the center 24/7, 365 days. Their main goal is to protect the Kennedy workforce and assets. Normal activities include sweeps of designated facilities, parking lots and random vehicle inspections at entrance gates. During rocket launches, they are out and about performing sweeps of facilities and launch site viewing areas. They cover Kennedy and the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.

K-9 Spike is ready for the next training exercise with his Handler Officer John McGee at Kennedy Space Center’s Protective Services Office in Florida on July 10, 2019. The center’s specially trained K-9s support the center 24/7, 365 days. Their main goal is to protect the Kennedy workforce and assets. Normal activities include sweeps of designated facilities, parking lots and random vehicle inspections at entrance gates. During rocket launches, they are out and about performing sweeps of facilities and launch site viewing areas. They cover Kennedy and the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.

K-9 Handler Officer John McGee watches as K-9 Spike works his way through a row of cars during a training exercise on July 10, 2019, at Kennedy Space Center’s Protective Services Office in Florida. The center’s specially trained K-9s support the center 24/7, 365 days. Their main goal is to protect the Kennedy workforce and assets. Normal activities include sweeps of designated facilities, parking lots and random vehicle inspections at entrance gates. During rocket launches, they are out and about performing sweeps of facilities and launch site viewing areas. They cover Kennedy and the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.

A K-9 advance team patrols the railroad tracks as the Soyuz rocket is rolled out by train to the launch pad, Monday, Sept. 23, 2019 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 61 crewmembers Jessica Meir of NASA and Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos, and spaceflight participant Hazzaa Ali Almansoori of the United Arab Emirates will launch September 25th on the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)