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teachspace
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posted 09-02-2012 09:42 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for teachspace   Click Here to Email teachspace     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Does anybody have any idea if there is some kind of list or writing that has the names of some of the VIP's who attended the Apollo 11 launch?

capoetc
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posted 09-03-2012 07:39 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for capoetc   Click Here to Email capoetc     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
You might try contacting Jack King (former Chief of Public Information and Public Affairs Officer for NASA). If he doesn't have or know of an actual list, he would remember many names of folks who were there.

I'll bet there is at least a partial list (if not a complete list) in NASA's archives, so NASA's history office would also be a good place to start.

Go4Launch
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posted 09-10-2012 03:29 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Go4Launch   Click Here to Email Go4Launch     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Some of them included:
  • Vice President Spiro Agnew
  • Former President Lyndon Johnson & Mrs. Johnson
  • Former NASA administrator Jim Webb
  • NASA Administrator Tom Paine
  • Ralph David Abernathy
  • Sargent Shriver
  • Jack Benny
  • Johnny Carson
  • 69 ambassadors
  • 40 mayors
  • 19 governors

Blackarrow
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posted 09-10-2012 03:49 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Blackarrow     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
One notable absentee was Senator Edward Kennedy.

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