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Worden Views Launch

From left to right: Col. Martin France, professor and head of the Department of Astronautics, United States Air Force Academy; Dr. S. Pete Worden, Director of NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.; Mead Treadwell, Lt. Governor of the State of Alaska; and Bradley Sapper at the launch viewing area of the the Alaska Aerospace Corporation’s Kodiak Launch Complex prior to the launch of the Minotaur IV rocket, that carried NASA’s Organism/Organic Exposure to Orbital Stresses (O/OREOS) nanosatellite into orbit.

Image credit: NASA/Matthew Daniels