Mrs. Lyndon Johnson Tours Space Centre AKA Mrs. Johnson Tours Space Centre (1964)

Unissued / unused material - dates and locations may be unclear / unknown. Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America / USA MS Out of plane window of propeller turning during flight. Various shots inside the small plane First Lady Mrs LadyBird Johnson, wife of US President Johnson chats to newswomen during flight. MS Mrs Johnson gazes out of plane window into space. Aerial view of the ground through hazy clouds. Various shots during her visit to the Marshall Space Flight Centre in Huntsville, Mrs Johnson looks over some of the machines, rockets and space capsule used in space research, she is here to be briefed on progress of Saturn Five. Half way through the tour, she is asked by rocket scientist Wernher von Braun to wear the uniform steel helmet for her tour which she looks a little reluctant to put on. For lunch she joins fifty of her Alabama relatives who she has invited for the visit, for lunch. She goes and watches test firings of booster rocket from behind a protective wall accompanied
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