Wernher von Braun

Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) Director Wernher von Braun, seated near a periscope in Kennedy Space Center's Blockhouse 34, on May 28, 1964, looks over a flight manual while awaiting the launch of SA-6, the sixth Saturn I flight. Also known as Apollo Mission A-101, the launch marked the first flight of an Apollo spacecraft with a Saturn launch vehicle.