President Kennedy tours Mercury Control Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, 1962
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President Kennedy tours Mercury Control Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, 1962
President Kennedy tours Mercury Control Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, 1962. President John F. Kennedy is briefed on the operation of Mercury Control Center following the Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) flight. This was President Kennedys first visit to Cape Canaveral. MA-6 astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr. (partially obscured) piloted the Mercury " Friendship 7" spacecraft on the United States first human orbital flight. In the center (on Glenns left) is Christopher C. Kraft, Jr. MA-6 flight director and Chief of Flight Operations at the MSC. The MA-6 flight was on February 20, 1962. Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. (right), pilot of the Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) mission, made the United States first manned space flight on May 5, 1961
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