Kennedy gets a briefing on the Nasa space program – 1962
President Kennedy takes a tour of Cape Canaveral in September 1962. Cape Canaveral has always been home to NASA’s many space adventures, including the first manned spaceflight program: Mercury. Mercury’s objective was to be the first manned spacecraft in earth’s orbit and soon led to many other successful missions, such as the Apollo and Gemini missions. Here, Kennedy watches the launch that is about to make astronaut John Glenn the first American into orbit on February 20th.