CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida, 110 people from 36 countries wave their American flags after taking the Oath of Allegiance to become American citizens. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' Acting Southeast Regional Director Rosemary Langley Melville administered the oath in the complex's Rocket Garden in honor of the upcoming Independence Day holiday. This was the first naturalization ceremony hosted by a NASA facility. An estimated 3,800 candidates will become citizens at 55 special ceremonies, including the one at Kennedy, held across the country and around the world July 1-6. Photo Credit: NASA_Jim Grossmann

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida, Searra Weeks, a fifth-grade student at Robert Louis Stevenson Elementary School in Merritt Island, sings the national anthem during a naturalization ceremony. The Transportation and Security Administration Honor Guard posted the American, Homeland Security and NASA flags at the ceremony. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services administered the Oath of Allegiance to 110 people, representing 36 countries, in honor of the upcoming Independence Day holiday. This was the first naturalization ceremony hosted by a NASA facility. An estimated 3,800 candidates will become citizens at 55 special ceremonies, including the one at Kennedy, held across the country and around the world July 1-6. Photo Credit: NASA_Jim Grossmann

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida, 110 people, representing 36 countries, celebrate becoming American citizens during a naturalization ceremony. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services administered the oath in the complex's Rocket Garden in honor of the upcoming Independence Day holiday. This was the first naturalization ceremony hosted by a NASA facility. An estimated 3,800 candidates will become citizens at 55 special ceremonies, including the one at Kennedy, held across the country and around the world July 1-6. Photo Credit: NASA_Jim Grossmann

September 11th remembrance ceremony held in front of NASA Research Park Bldg-17 (Lunar Science Institute) hosted by the American Legion, Post 881, Moffett Field. Pledge of Allegiance by Brandon Gonzalez

iss070e091729 (Feb. 11, 2024) --- The International Space Station was soaring 261 miles above Las Vegas at the time of this photograph minutes before kickoff at Super Bowl LVIII on Feb. 11, 2024. Landmarks pictured from an external station camera are, Allegiant Stadium, The Sphere (partially obscured by shadow), and Harry Reid International Airport.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At the Astronaut Hall of Fame Induction ceremony in Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex’s Apollo_Saturn V Center, guests and audience recite the Pledge of Allegiance. The new inductees, displaying blue ribbons, are Bruce McCandless (left to right), Joe Allen and Gordon Fullerton. Next to them are Jim Kennedy (far right), who is director of Kennedy Space Center, and his wife, Bernadette. Recognized for their individual flight accomplishments and contributions to the success and future success of the U.S. space program, this elite group of inductees is among only 60 astronauts to be honored in the Hall of Fame and the fourth group of Space Shuttle astronauts named.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- Maria Lopez-Tellado (center) and Rey N. Diaz (right) display the plaques they received at the annual Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration, held at the Kurt Debus Conference Facility at KSC. The two were recognized for their efforts as chairs of the event, which featuraed a luncheon and comments by Deputy Center Director Jim Jennings and Miguel Rodriquez, chief, Integration Office, of the Joint Performance Management Office. Joseph Tellado (left), International Space Station/Payload Processing, led the pledge of allegiance and invocation. The Merrit Island High School ROTC provided the color guard. The event was sponsored by the Hispanic Employment Program Working Group at KSC

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame induction ceremony, Boy Scouts lead the pledge of allegiance. The May 5 induction added space shuttle commanders Michael L. Coats, Steven A. Hawley and Jeffrey A. Hoffman to the Hall of Fame. They grow the number of space explorers enshrined in the Hall of Fame to 66. These gentlemen have joined such American space heroes as Neil Armstrong, John Glenn, Alan Shepard and Sally Ride. The ceremony was held at the Kennedy Space Center's Apollo/Saturn V Center. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- Deputy Center Director Jim Jennings speaks to guests at the annual Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration, held at the Kurt Debus Conference Facility at KSC. Chaired by Rey N. Diaz and Maria Lopez-Tellado, who received plaques of appreciation for their efforts, the event also featured a luncheon and comments by Miguel Rodriquez, chief, Integration Office, of the Joint Performance Management Office. The pledge of allegiance and invocation was led by Joseph Tellado, International Space Station_Payload Processing. The Merrit Island High School ROTC provided the color guard. The event was sponsored by the Hispanic Employment Program Working Group at KSC

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, left, and Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana join Kennedy employees in the Pledge of Allegiance at an employee appreciation event for the thousands of workers who have processed, launched and landed America's space shuttles for more than three decades. Following the successful STS-135 mission, space shuttle Atlantis was parked at the celebration site for photo opportunities. STS-135 secured the space shuttle fleet's place in history and brought a close to NASA's Space Shuttle Program. On board were STS-135 Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Doug Hurley, and Mission Specialists Sandra Magnus and Rex Walheim. On the 37th shuttle mission to the International Space Station, STS-135 delivered the Raffaello multi-purpose logistics module filled with more than 9,400 pounds of spare parts, equipment and supplies that will sustain station operations for the next year. STS-135 was the 33rd and final flight for Atlantis, which has spent 307 days in space, orbited Earth 4,848 times and traveled 125,935,769 miles, and also the final mission of the Space Shuttle Program. For more information, visit www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts135/index.html. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Rocket Garden at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida, the audience and speakers stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and the singing of the National Anthem by a member of the 45th Space Wing Honor Guard from Patrick Air Force Base in Florida. Also on stage are, from left, Director of Education and External Relations for Kennedy Cheryl Hurst, Center Director Bob Cabana and United States Postal Service official Steve Massey, Mercury Astronaut Scott Carpenter, NASA Administrator, Charlie Bolden, Julie Jenkins and NASA's Deputy Director for Planetary Science, Jim Adams, all in attendance for the United States Postal Service unveiling of two new stamps to commemorate the 50th anniversary of human spaceflight. One stamp commemorates NASA's Project Mercury and Alan Shepard's historic launch on May 5, 1961, aboard the spacecraft Freedom 7. The second stamp honors NASA's MESSENGER, which reached Mercury in March to become the first spacecraft to orbit the planet. The two missions frame a remarkable 50-year period in which America advanced space exploration through more than 1,500 crewed and uncrewed flights. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett