
Astronaut John Young (left), the keynote speaker at the Thirty-Fifth Space Congress, is presented with a model of the International Space Station by the Congress' General Chairman Bruce Melnick. Young is the associate director responsible for technical, operational and safety oversight of all NASA programs and activities assigned to the Johnson Space Center. Melnick, a former astronaut, is currently vice president of The Boeing Company and is responsible for the Payload Ground Operations Contract at Kennedy Space Center. The Thirty-Fifth Space Congress, sponsored by the Canaveral Council of Technical Societies, is being held in Cocoa Beach, Florida, from April 28 to May 1 and is a gathering of the world's aerospace community to discuss the status and future of space activities around the world
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KSC-98pc547
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April 28, 1998
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Kennedy Space Center, FL
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