Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-C42-2-62
President John F. Kennedy (holding hat) greets Director of the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), Dr. Wernher von Braun, upon arrival at Redstone Army Airfield, Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama. Left to right: Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh; Secretary of the Army, Cyrus R. Vance; Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, General Curtis E. LeMay; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; Representative Albert Thomas of Texas (mostly hidden); Dr. von Braun (shaking hands with President Kennedy); Representative Robert E. Jones (Alabama); Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; President Kennedy; Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. James E. Webb (partially hidden); Commander of the U.S. Army Materiel Command, Lieutenant General Frank S. Besson, Jr.; Commanding General of the U.S. Army Missile Command, Major General Francis J. McMorrow. Air Force One sits at left in background. The President traveled to Huntsville as part of a two-day inspection tour of NASA field installations. [Scratches on image are original to the negative.]