JFK MAKES LAST VISIT TO CAPE CANAVERAL
Cape Canaveral, Florida (JFK+50) On November 16, 1963, President John F. Kennedy made his last visit to the space center here at Cape Canaveral.
Thurston Clarke quotes Miami Herald reporter Nixon Smiley as saying...
"...the air was electrified from the time of the President's arrival until a moment after his departure."
JFK's briefing, held outside the Saturn Control Center, was directed by rocket scientist Dr. Werner von Braun and NASA astronauts Leroy Gordon Cooper and Virgil Gus Grissom.
The President also attended a lecture given by Dr. George Mueller, NASA administrator, who "summarized developments" in the program to land a man on the moon.
Clarke writes that JFK "impatiently" listened to the lecture and then jumped up immediately afterward to ask some questions about the rocket models on display in the room. When told the models were "built to scale" and the Saturn V lunar-mission rocket was 7 times larger than the Redstone, JFK remarked, "Gee, looks like we've come a long way."
Cape Canaveral, Florida (JFK+50) On November 16, 1963, President John F. Kennedy made his last visit to the space center here at Cape Canaveral.
Thurston Clarke quotes Miami Herald reporter Nixon Smiley as saying...
"...the air was electrified from the time of the President's arrival until a moment after his departure."
JFK's briefing, held outside the Saturn Control Center, was directed by rocket scientist Dr. Werner von Braun and NASA astronauts Leroy Gordon Cooper and Virgil Gus Grissom.
The President also attended a lecture given by Dr. George Mueller, NASA administrator, who "summarized developments" in the program to land a man on the moon.
Clarke writes that JFK "impatiently" listened to the lecture and then jumped up immediately afterward to ask some questions about the rocket models on display in the room. When told the models were "built to scale" and the Saturn V lunar-mission rocket was 7 times larger than the Redstone, JFK remarked, "Gee, looks like we've come a long way."
Von Braun and JFK
Cape Canaveral, Florida
November 16, 1963
NASA Photo
