This week in 1960, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, center foreground, traveled to Huntsville to dedicate NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center as a new NASA field center.
This week in 1960, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, center foreground, traveled to Huntsville to dedicate NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center as a new NASA field center. Eisenhower and Marshall’s first center director, Dr. Wernher von Braun, third from right, laugh with other guests during the dedication. The NASA History Program documents and preserves NASA’s remarkable history through a variety of products — photos, press kits, press releases, mission transcripts and administrators’ speeches. For more pictures like this one and to connect to NASA’s history, visit the History Program’s Web page.