This week in 1960, President Dwight Eisenhower visited Huntsville to formally dedicate NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. The center was named in honor of Gen. George C. Marshall, Eisenhower’s wartime colleague and the founder of the famous Marshall Plan for European recovery after World War II. Here, Eisenhower talks with Wernher von Braun, Marshall’s first center director, in front of the core stage of a Saturn I rocket, which was built at Marshall.
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