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[Project Apollo] The US presidents of the space race: Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson visiting NASA. NASA, 1960–1964. Printed 1960–1964. Three vintage gelatin silver prints on fiber-based paper. Each 20.3×25.4 cm (8×10 in), the first with NASA / USAF caption on the verso (NASA Cape Canaveral, Florida). (3). Three photographs featuring the major political decision makers who made the U.S. Moon landing possible. First photograph: Arrival of President Dwight Eisenhower at Cape Canaveral in February 1960. He was briefed on operations at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station / Patrick Air Force Base in Florida and visited an Atlas rocket on the launch pad. In response to the Soviet Union's Sputnik, President Dwight Eisenhower had signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, establishing NASA, on July 29, 1958. NASA began operations on October 1, 1958. Project Mercury, the first human spaceflight program of the United States, was publicly announced on December 17, 1958. Second photograph: President John F. Kennedy, center, gets a briefing of the Gemini capsule (backgrounnd) with astronauts Gordon Cooper and Virgil Gus Grissom at Cape Canaveral on November 16, 1963. This was the last visit of the President to the Florida Space Center before his assassination. President Kennedy had detailed his goals for the nation’s space effort in the famous “Moon speech” at Rice university. “We choose to go to the Moon. We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.” President Kennedy, Rice University, September 12, 1962. Third photograph: President Johnson visits a lunar landing research vehicle at a NASA center in 1964. After Kennedy’s assassination on November 23, 1963, President Johnson renamed the Cape Canaveral facility Cape Kennedy as an appropriate memorial for the President who had set the goal of landing on the Moon. From 1963 to 1973, Cape Canaveral became Cape Kennedy. Together with NASA’s Administrator James Webb who was able to produce continued support and resources for Apollo, President Johnson directed NASA’s undertaking of the goal set by Kennedy of landing an American on the Moon before the end of the 1960s through the Apollo program. Project Mercury (at least in its latter stages), Project Gemini, and Project Apollo were designed to execute Kennedy's goal. His goal was achieved on July 20, 1969, when Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong stepped off the Lunar Module's ladder and onto the Moon's surface. Condition Minor creases to corners of second print, otherwise excellent condition. Preview In Lyngby Auction Space, 15 November 2023 Category Photos ▸ Vintage photographs Selling 15 November at 6:08 pm Estimate 6,000–8,000 DKK
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