KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. - At Launch Pad 39A, (from left) Center Director Roy Bridges Jr., Shuttle Processing Director Dave King and the new NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe look over Space Shuttle Columbia, scheduled to launch Feb. 28 on mission STS-109. The administrator was at KSC on an agencywide familiarization tour of NASA field centers. He was nominated for the position as administrator in November 2001 by President George W. Bush. He was sworn in Dec. 21 as the agency's 10th chief
Location Kennedy Space Center, FL
Date February 15, 2002