In a ceremony honoring Dr. Wernher von Braun, who served as Marshall Space Flight Center Director from 1960 to 1970, Marshall officials renamed the 4200 Building Complex as the Wernher von Braun Office Complex and unveiled a bust of the former director. This photograph is a close-up of the bust in the courtyard. The sculptor of the bust is a MSFC employee, Jack Hood.
Wernher von Braun
In a ceremony honoring Dr. Wernher von Braun, who served as Marshall Space Flight Center Director from 1960 to 1970, Marshall officials renamed the 4200 Building Complex as the Wernher von Braun Office Complex and unveiled a bust of the former director. This photograph is a close-up of the bust in the courtyard. The sculptor of the bust is a MSFC employee, Jack Hood.
Wernher von Braun
In a ceremony honoring Dr. Wernher von Braun, who served as Marshall Space Flight Center Director from 1960 to 1970, Marshall officials renamed the 4200 Building Complex as the Wernher von Braun Office Complex and unveiled a bust of the former director. This photograph is a close-up of the bust in the courtyard. The sculptor of the bust is a MSFC employee, Jack Hood.
Wernher von Braun
Dedication ceremonies renaming Johnson Space Center, with Lady Bird Johnson and family beside bust of President Johnson.
VISITORS - DEDICATION CEREMONIES - JSC
PHIL SUMRALL POSES FOR A PORTRAIT OUTSIDE OF BUILDING 4203 BESIDE OF THE VON BRAUN BUST
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MSFC HISTORIAN MIKE WRIGHT AND IRIS VON BRAUN ROBBINS, DAUGHTER OF WERNHER VON BRAUN, VIEW VON BRAUN BUST IN 4200 COURTYARD.
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NASA Spitzer Space Telescope captured this picture of comet Holmes in March 2008, five months after the comet suddenly erupted and brightened a millionfold overnight.
Anatomy of a Busted Comet
Jane Kenna of Atlanta, granddaughter of the late Sen. John C. Stennis, stands with her husband, John, near a bust of her grandfather displayed in StenniSphere, the visitor center at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center. Kenna visited Stennis on April 6, her first trip to the rocket engine testing facility since the 1988 ceremony to rename the site in honor of Stennis.
Stennis' granddaughter visits Mississippi Facility
STS009-126-441 (28 Nov 1983) --- The six crewmembers of STS-9 position themselves in a star bust-like cluster in the aft end cone of Spacelab aboard the Shuttle Columbia. Clockwise, beginning with John W. Young, are Ulf Merbold, Owen K. Garriott, Brewster H. Shaw, Jr., Byron M. Lichtenberg and Robert A.R. Parker.
Portrait of STS-9 crew in the Spacelab
President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Mrs. George C. Marshall unveil the bronze bust of General George C. Marshall during the dedication of the Marshall Space Flight Center. Eisenhower signed an Executive Order on October 21, 1959 directing the transfer of persornel from the Redstone Arsenal's Army Ballistic Missile Agency Development Operations Division to NASA. On March 15, 1960, another Executive Order announced that the space complex formed within the boundaries of Redstone Arsenal would become the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center. The Center was activated on July 1, 1960, with dedication ceremonies taking place September 8, 1960.
Origin of Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)