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White House Photographs
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Administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency, Najeeb Halaby (left), and Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr. (center), talk with astronaut Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr.'s wife, Louise Shepard, during the presentation ceremony of the 1962 Robert J. Collier Trophy; President John F. Kennedy presented the award to Commander Shepard and the six other astronauts of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Project Mercury. Also pictured: Senator Clinton P. Anderson (New Mexico) and astronaut Major Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom's wife, Betty Grissom. West Wing Colonnade, White House, Washington, D.C.