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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The Rocket Garden at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida provides an appropriate backfor a free screening of the film "Forbidden Planet" for NASA Kennedy Space Center employees, their families and members of the general public. The film is hosted by Turner Classic Movies, or TCM, as part of their Classic Film Festival. Participating in a panel discussion before the movie begins are, from left, Kennedy Director Robert Cabana, NASA astronaut Mike Massimino and TCM host Ben Mankiewicz. "Forbidden Planet," starring Walter Pigeon, Anne Francis and Leslie Nielsen, was nominated for an Academy Award in 1956 for best special effects in part for its robot character, Robby. Its storyline follows astronauts sent to a planet to find out why there has been no communication from the scientists working there. For more information about the Rocket Garden and the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, visit http://www.kennedyspacecenter.com. Photo credit: NASA/Tim Jacobs