This week in 1964, Dr. Wernher von Braun, left, the first center director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, presents Lady Bird Johnson with an inscribed hard hat during the first lady’s visit. While at Marshall, she addressed center employees, toured facilities and witnessed test firings of a Saturn I first stage and an F-1 engine. Von Braun is wearing a hat presented to him months earlier by President Lyndon Johnson during a visit to Johnson’s ranch in Texas.
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