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What’re you looking at? 👀 This sandhill crane is one of the 1,500 different species of plants and animals that make their home at NASAKennedy, which shares space with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. The Space Coast is a particularly favorable environment for sandhill cranes due to the region's shallow freshwater habitats, which provide nesting space and a variety of food sources. Behind the crane, in the background, you can see the Vehicle Assembly Building, one of the largest buildings in the world and the staging ground for NASA’s biggest rockets—including the NASAArtemis I rocket which launched our Orion spacecraft around the Moon in 2022. Image description: The large, brown eyes of a sandhill crane stare directly into the camera; the crane’s head, its long, grey, narrow neck, and the top of its body are visible. A blue sky with scattered clouds takes up most of the background; the square outline of the Vehicle Assembly Building, including its large, painted NASA...

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