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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-09-12-B
ST13, KN22
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C23662
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. Standing in back: Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth; Director of Manned Space Flight, D. Brainerd Holmes (far right, mostly out of frame). The President visited the Center as part of a two-day inspection tour of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) field installations.