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White House Photographs
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President John F. Kennedy tours spacecraft displays inside a hangar at the Rich Building of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas; astronaut Lieutenant Commander M. Scott Carpenter (back to camera) briefs President Kennedy. Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth (partially in shadow), stands in back. The President visited the Center as part of a two-day inspection tour of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) field installations.