Slow and steady wins the race for this gopher tortoise, ambling along the Launch Pad 39B beach road on NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Gopher tortoises are dry-land turtles that live in scrub, dry hammock, pine flatwood, coastal grassland and dune habitats.
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