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White House Photographs
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President John F. Kennedy (right, back to camera) views a mock-up of the interior of a Gemini capsule, during a tour of spacecraft displays inside a hangar at the Rich Building of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson stands left of President Kennedy; astronaut Major Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom (mostly hidden) stands at right. The President visited the Center as part of a two-day inspection tour of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) field installations.