President Barack Obama delivers a speech at the Operations and Checkout Building at NASA Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. on Thursday, April 15, 2010. The President visited the Center to deliver remarks on the new course the administration is charting for NASA and the future of U.S. human space flight. "I want to thank the men and women of NASA for welcoming me to the Kennedy Space Center, and for your contributions not only to America, but to the world. "Here at the Kennedy Space Center we are surrounded by monuments and milestones of those contributions. It was from here that NASA launched the missions of Mercury and Gemini and Apollo," the President said. Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls NASA Identifier: 444867main_201004150004HQ