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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – On a tour of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden (pointing, at left) stops in the Operations and Checkout Building to view the high bay planned for the assembly of the Constellation Program's Orion crew vehicle (seen at right). On the right is Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company Deputy Program Manager Richard F. Harris. Bolden is touring several facilities at Kennedy involved with NASA's Constellation Program. Bolden also was at Kennedy for several events, including the landing of space shuttle Endeavour's STS-127 mission and the signing of the joint NASA-Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency agreement defining the terms of cooperation between the agencies on the Global Precipitation Measurement, or GPM, mission. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett