U.S. President and Mrs. Pat Nixon and daughter Patricia visit the Cape Kennedy Space Center in Florida, to witness the launch of Apollo 12. Presidential helicopter descends and lands at the Space Center. President and Mrs. Nixon shake hands and speak with enthusiastic spectators as they make their way from the helicopter, along a path marked by ropes. A light rain is falling. Large welcoming crowd near the parked helicopter take photos, standing in rain. Secret servicemen walk ahead of the Nixons. Onlookers huddle under umbrellas and other protection. Cameramen protect their equipment. The President ignores the rain as he mingles with the folks along the pathway. The Nixons are escorted to a place in the viewing stands where they stand up, along with the crowd of spectators to watch the launch of the Apollo 12 moon mission.
U.S. President Nixon visits staff at the Launch Contol in Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, following the launch of the Apollo 12 moon mission. Large crowd at Launch Control welcomes Nixon and First Lady. Secret Service agents walk close to them. Nixon shakes hands and chats with Launch Control personnel. People in the crowd cheer.
President Nixon addresses NASA engineers and technicians in the Launch Control Firing Room at Cape Kennedy Space Center, after the Apollo 12 moon mission is launched. Badges of various scientists. Interiors of the control room with monitoring screens everywhere. The NASA personnel are at their control stations. Some wear headsets.
United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom Joseph Kennedy returns from London, United Kingdom. A Boeing 314 or Clipper flying boat at the New York pier. The Ambassador gets off amidst security personnel and other officials. He is greeted by numerous officials and his family members. He poses with his family for the press.
A vast ship building program to be undertaken by the Maritime Commission in the United States. The newly appointed Chairman of the Maritime Commission Joseph P. Kennedy, speaks on the proposed plan to build new merchant ships. He emphasizes the necessity for a complete refurbishing of the Merchant Marine. Outmoded merchant ships built during World War I. Several ships docked at the New York harbor. People cheer and wave as the new ocean liner SS Rex sets sail. Flagship of the United States Line, the Leviathan, in dry dock. The British ocean liner Queen Mary leaves for Europe. Foreign merchant ships entering and leaving the harbor.
Apollo 17 Saturn V SA-512 midnight launch at the Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A. Exhaust streaming out the bottom of the Saturn V SA-512 rocket at midnight of December 7, 1972.
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