Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-C378-8-62
Director of the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), Dr. Wernher von Braun, rides in the back of a motorized cart during President John F. Kennedy's tour of the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation plant in St. Louis, Missouri. Chief scientific adviser to the Ministry of Defence of Great Britain, Sir Solly Zuckerman, rides in front seat; driver of cart is unidentified. Also pictured: White House Secret Service agents, Bill Duncan and Roy Kellerman. McDonnell plant employees line the tour route. President Kennedy visited the plant as part of a two-day inspection tour of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) field installations. Lambert-St. Louis Municipal Airport, St. Louis, Missouri. [Scratches on image are original to the negative.]