CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Community leaders, business executives, educators, and state and local government leaders were updated on NASA Kennedy Space Center programs and accomplishments during Center Director Bob Cabana’s Center Director Update at the Debus Center at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. Attendees talk with Trey Carlson, Kennedy Master Planner, at the Center Planning and Development Directorate, or CPDD, display. In the background is Mario Busacca, chief of CPDD’s Spaceport Planning Office. Attendees talked with Cabana and other senior Kennedy managers and visited displays featuring updates on Kennedy programs and projects, including International Space Station, Commercial Crew, Ground System Development and Operations, Launch Services, Center Planning and Development, Technology, KSC Swamp Works and NASA Education. The morning concluded with a tour of the new Space Shuttle Atlantis exhibit at the visitor complex. For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/kennedy. Photo credit: NASA/Daniel Casper

NASA astronaut Don Pettit speaks with Trey Carlson, chief of staff for NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, left, John McCullough, deputy associate administrator for integration in NASA’s Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, and Janet Petro, director of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center during NASA’s Day on the Hill, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025, at the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

White House Liaison Darren Bossie, left, NASA Chief of Staff Trey Carlson, NASA acting Administrator Janet Petro, right, and other NASA senior leadership, meet with NASA Expedition 71 astronauts Tracy Dyson, Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, Monday, March 3, 2025, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington. Dominick, Epps, Barratt, and Dyson served as part of Expedition 71 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA Expedition 71 astronauts Tracy Dyson, Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, meet with NASA acting Administrator Janet Petro, NASA acting Associate Administrator Vanessa Wyche, NASA Deputy Associate Administrator Casey Swails, White House Liaison Darren Bossie, and NASA Chief of Staff Trey Carlson, meet, Monday, March 3, 2025, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington. Dominick, Epps, Barratt, and Dyson served as part of Expedition 71 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA Expedition 71 astronauts Tracy Dyson, Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, meet with NASA acting Administrator Janet Petro, center, NASA acting Associate Administrator Vanessa Wyche, NASA Deputy Associate Administrator Casey Swails, White House Liaison Darren Bossie, and NASA Chief of Staff Trey Carlson, meet, Monday, March 3, 2025, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington. Dominick, Epps, Barratt, and Dyson served as part of Expedition 71 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA, local and state officials met at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the sixth KSC Roundtable, in which participants exchanged ideas about the center’s current plans. The meeting was hosted by Kennedy’s Center Planning and Development Directorate (CPD). Seated from left to right are Greg Weiner of the Economic Development Commission of Florida’s Space Coast; Ashley Guinn, legislative assistant to Steve Crisafulli, speaker of the Florida House of Representatives; Todd Pokrywa of The Viera Co.; Charles Lee of the Florida Audubon Society; Rich Biter, former assistant secretary of Intermodal Systems Development, Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT); David Pierce of CPD; Marshall Heard, retired Boeing senior executive; Nancy Potts of CPD; Tom Engler, acting director of CPD; Moataz Hassan of FDOT District 5; Trey Carlson of CPD; and Rep. Crisafulli.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Trey Carlson, the spaceport's master planner, describes how the Center Planning and Development Directorate CPD is working to help transform Kennedy into a multi-user spaceport through partnerships and resource planning. The event was first of what is planned to be quarterly meetings between NASA's industry partners and representatives of Kennedy's CPD, Safety and Mission Assurance, International Space Station Ground Processing, Chief Financial officer and Ground Processing and Ground Systems Development and Operations directorates. Center Planning and Development is the “front door” for partnerships with NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Kennedy is now developing the world’s premier spaceport for government and commercial space industries using comprehensive resource planning and partnerships. Photo credit: NASA/Daniel Casper

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Trey Carlson, the spaceport's master planner, describes how the Center Planning and Development Directorate CPD is working to help transform Kennedy into a multi-user spaceport through partnerships and resource planning. The event was first of what is planned to be quarterly meetings between NASA's industry partners and representatives of Kennedy's CPD, Safety and Mission Assurance, International Space Station Ground Processing, Chief Financial officer and Ground Processing and Ground Systems Development and Operations directorates. Center Planning and Development is the “front door” for partnerships with NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Kennedy is now developing the world’s premier spaceport for government and commercial space industries using comprehensive resource planning and partnerships. Photo credit: NASA/Daniel Casper