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President John F. Kennedy (back to camera) greets officials upon arrival at Redstone Army Airfield, Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama. Standing in receiving line (L-R): unidentified; Secretary of the Army, Cyrus R. Vance (in back, partially hidden); Commanding General of the U.S. Army Missile Command, Major General Francis J. McMorrow (shaking hands with President Kennedy); Director of the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), Dr. Wernher von Braun; Representative Robert E. Jones (Alabama); Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. James E. Webb. The President traveled to Huntsville as part of a two-day inspection tour of NASA field installations.
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President John F. Kennedy tours the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama; Director of the MSFC, Dr. Wernher von Braun, walks right of President Kennedy. Also pictured: Associate Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Jr.; Minister of Defence of Great Britain, Peter Thorneycroft; Administrator of NASA, Dr. James E. Webb; Representative Robert E. Jones (Alabama); Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara; Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Dr. Jerome B. Wiesner; White House Secret Service agent, Gerald A. “Jerry” Behn. The Saturn C-1 rocket sits in background. The President visited the MSFC as part of a two-day inspection tour of NASA field installations.
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President John F. Kennedy (center right) views models of the Saturn rocket, during a tour of the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama; Director of the MSFC, Dr. Wernher von Braun (back to camera), briefs President Kennedy. Also pictured: Representative Robert E. Jones (Alabama); Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and Vice Chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Dr. Leonard Carmichael. The President visited the MSFC as part of a two-day inspection tour of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) field installations.