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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-09-12-B
ST13, KN22
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C23689
President John F. Kennedy tours spacecraft displays inside a hangar at the Rich Building of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas; a mock-up of a Gemini paraglider is visible in the background. Left to right: White House Press Secretary, Pierre Salinger (back to camera); Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr. (in back); President Kennedy; Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. James E. Webb (partially hidden); astronaut Major Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom; Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh (in back); Associate Administrator of NASA, Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Jr.; (in back, mostly hidden); Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Director of Operations for Project Mercury, Dr. Walter C. Williams; Representative George P. Miller of California (in back, partially hidden); Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton (very back, mostly hidden); Director of Manned Space Flight, D. Brainerd Holmes; Governor of Texas, Price Daniel; unidentified. The President visited the Center as part of a two-day inspection tour of NASA field installations.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-23796
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; astronaut Major Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom (right) laughs with President Kennedy and others. Left to right: Chief of Life Systems Division at the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Stanley C. White (partially out of frame); Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (back to camera); Major Grissom; President Kennedy; unidentified (in back); Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth; Associate Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Jr. (partially hidden); White House Secret Service agent, Gerald A. “Jerry” Behn. The President visited the Center as part of a two-day inspection tour of NASA field installations.