On this day, November 16, 1963, Wernher von Braun briefed JFK on NASA's new Saturn rocket at Cape Canaveral.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

JFK briefed by Wernher von Braun on NASA's new Saturn rocket at Cape Canaveral, tomorrow 1963: #JFKL

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[displacedvermoter]

1. Remember when von Braun and Cronkite did CBS space coverage together?

Wonder what Cronkite thought about having to share the screen with a Nazi who made weapons of mass destruction for Hitler?

It was pretty cool TV none the less. Each network had its own team covering big events.

[Timeflyer]

2. "He aimed for the stars--but sometimes he hit London."

[2naSalit]

3. I remember that...

I was young but my brother and dad were all about this so, by osmosis, I was witness to this too. I later, while in college, met his daughter who was an administrator at U of I in Idaho.

The space program was a big deal in our house when I was a kid, my brother made sure I learned everything he did so he could have someone to share all his knowledge with since we moved so often that we were our only friends much of our childhoods.