Donny Stanfield talks about the shrimping industry while sitting in the pilothouse of his boat docked at the Texas City Dike. Photo by Stuart Villanueva

Boatswain’s Mate Second Class Kailea Blankenship steps off a U.S. Coast Guard vessel while inspecting boats on base in Galveston. Blankenship was Officer of the Day and was responsible for carrying out day-to-day operations on base while other mates were in the field. Photo by Kelsey Walling

Rick Becker begins to glue a lid on a tube meant for collecting monofilament at the Galveston Island State Park. Becker is the lead in a project to implement recycling bins for anglers to discard their fishing line waste. Photo by Kelsey Walling

Charter fishing boat captain Scott Hickman says he routinely finds balloon, styrofoam and other plastics floating in the water while out on fishing trips. Photo by Stuart Villanueva

Mary Warwick, left, the habitat and stewardship manager for Artist Boat, and Mort Voller, a member of the organization’s board, watch a gallinule and her chick from the Edward and Helen Oppenheimer Bird Observatory at the Artist Boat Coastal Heritage Preserve in Galveston. Photo by Jennifer Reynolds

Blaine Brown, deputy for the Orion crew and service module at Lockheed Martin, talks about NASA’s next step in space exploration at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Photo by Stuart Villanueva

Exhibits Director Paul Spana looks over the lunar landing exhibit at Space Center Houston. Photo by Stuart Villanueva

Robert Pearlman tries on one of the astronaut gloves in his collection at his Clear Lake-area home. Pearlman, who runs a website called CollectSpace, has an extensive collection of NASA memorabilia and artifacts ranging from promotional items to actual pieces of various spacecraft. Photo by Stuart Villanueva