Lyndon B. Johnson: Executive Order 11129 Designating Facilities in Florida as the John F. Kennedy Space Center.

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13 - Executive Order 11129 Designating Facilities in Florida as the John F. Kennedy Space Center.
November 29, 1963

Lyndon B. Johnson
1963-64: Book I

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WHEREAS President John F. Kennedy lighted the imagination of our people when he set the moon as our target and man as the means to reach it; and

WHEREAS the installations now to be renamed are a center and symbol of our country's peaceful assault on space; and

WHEREAS it is in the nature of this assault that it should test the limits of our youth and grace, our strength and wit, our vigor and perseverance--qualities fitting to the memory of John F. Kennedy:

Now, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, I hereby designate the facilities of the Launch Operations Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the facilities of Station No. 1 of the Atlantic Missile Range, in the State of Florida, as the John F. Kennedy Space Center; and such facilities shall be hereafter known and referred to by that name.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON

THE WHITE HOUSE

November 29, 1963

Citation: John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters, The American Presidency Project [online]. Santa Barbara, CA. Available from World Wide Web: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=26010.

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