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White House Photographs
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Astronaut Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr. (left), talks with Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr. (center), and Administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency, Najeeb Halaby (right), 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. White House Secret Service agent, Jack Ready, stands in background at left; others are unidentified. West Wing Colonnade, White House, Washington, D.C.