[Project Apollo] The decision makers of Project Apollo: President Kennedy, NASA’s head James Webb and top NASA officials at Cape Canaveral. NASA, 16 November 1963. Printed 1963. Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper. 20.3×25.4 cm (8×10 in), blank on the verso (NASA Cape Canaveral, Florida). An important photograph reuniting the major political visionaries who made the U.S. Moon landing possible. President John F. Kennedy, center, gets a briefing of the Saturn launch system from NASA’s chief James Webb and NASA Deputy Administrator Robert Seaman at Cape Canaveral on November 16, 1963. NASA’s Administrator James Webb directed NASA’s undertaking of the goal set by Kennedy of landing an American on the Moon before the end of the 1960s through the Apollo program. Until his retirement in October 1968, Webb lobbied for support for NASA in Congress. As a longtime Washington insider and with the backing of President Lyndon B. Johnson, he was able to produce continued support and resources for Apollo. This was the last visit of the President to the Florida Space Center. After Kennedy’s assassination on November 23, 1963, his widow, Jacqueline Kennedy, suggested to President Johnson that renaming the Cape Canaveral facility would be an appropriate memorial for the President who had set the goal of landing on the Moon. From 1963 to 1973, Cape Canaveral became Cape Kennedy when President Lyndon Johnson by executive order renamed the area, announced in a televised address six days after the assassination, on Thanksgiving evening. One year earlier, President Kennedy had detailed his goals for the nation’s space effort in the famous “Moon speech” at Rice university. “We choose to go to the Moon. We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.” President Kennedy, Rice University, September 12, 1962. Project Mercury (at least in its latter stages), Project Gemini, and Project Apollo were designed to execute Kennedy's goal. His goal was achieved on July 20, 1969, when Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong stepped off the Lunar Module's ladder and onto the Moon's surface.
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[Project Apollo] The decision makers of Project Apollo: President Kennedy, NASA’s head James Webb and top NASA officials at Cape Canaveral. NASA, 16 November 1963. Printed 1963. Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper. 20.3×25.4 cm (8×10 in), blank on the verso (NASA Cape Canaveral, Florida). An important photograph reuniting the major political visionaries who made the U.S. Moon landing possible. President John F. Kennedy, center, gets a briefing of the Saturn launch system from NASA’s chief James Webb and NASA Deputy Administrator Robert Seaman at Cape Canaveral on November 16, 1963. NASA’s Administrator James Webb directed NASA’s undertaking of the goal set by Kennedy of landing an American on the Moon before the end of the 1960s through the Apollo program. Until his retirement in October 1968, Webb lobbied for support for NASA in Congress. As a longtime Washington insider and with the backing of President Lyndon B. Johnson, he was able to produce continued support and resources for Apollo. This was the last visit of the President to the Florida Space Center. After Kennedy’s assassination on November 23, 1963, his widow, Jacqueline Kennedy, suggested to President Johnson that renaming the Cape Canaveral facility would be an appropriate memorial for the President who had set the goal of landing on the Moon. From 1963 to 1973, Cape Canaveral became Cape Kennedy when President Lyndon Johnson by executive order renamed the area, announced in a televised address six days after the assassination, on Thanksgiving evening. One year earlier, President Kennedy had detailed his goals for the nation’s space effort in the famous “Moon speech” at Rice university. “We choose to go to the Moon. We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.” President Kennedy, Rice University, September 12, 1962. Project Mercury (at least in its latter stages), Project Gemini, and Project Apollo were designed to execute Kennedy's goal. His goal was achieved on July 20, 1969, when Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong stepped off the Lunar Module's ladder and onto the Moon's surface.
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