President Kennedy at Apollo programme briefing. Footage of US President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) at a 1963 briefing on the Apollo manned lunar landing programme. Next to him is NASA Deputy Administrator Hugh Dryden. The briefing is taking place in an underground launch control centre at the NASA facilities at Merrit Island, near Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA. The briefing was given by NASA manager George Mueller. This footage is from the Presidential tour by Kennedy that took place here on 16 November 1963. This was Kennedy's third visit to Cape Canaveral, taking place a week before his assassination. The site was renamed the Kennedy Space Center in his honour on 29 November 1963. |