Oct 3 1965

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Former Astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr. (Col., C. Ret.), in Western Europe on a three-week goodwill tour at the request of President Johnson, saw the Berlin wall during a helicopter sightseeing trip. (Reuters, Chic, Trib, 10/4/65)

The extent of the economic impact of the space program on a seven-county Central Florida area around Cape Kennedy was disclosed in a report by the Univ. of Florida Bureau of Economic and Business Research. Total personal incomes in the seven counties had increased from $372,779,000 in 1950 to $572,375,000 in 1954, then more than tripled to $1,738,566,000 in 1963. (Houston Post, 10/6/65; KSC Historian)


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