Photograph
White House Photographs
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President John F. Kennedy (at lectern) pins the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Distinguished Service Medal on Dr. Robert Gilruth, Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, at Hangar ‘S,’ Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Brevard County, Florida. Astronaut Lieutenant Colonel John H. Glenn, Jr., who was also awarded the medal, is not pictured. Those looking on include: Senator Robert Kerr of Oklahoma (far left), Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (partially hidden behind Dr. Gilruth, wearing sunglasses), Air Force Aide to the President Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh (mostly hidden behind President Kennedy), Lieutenant Colonel Glenn's wife Annie Glenn (second from right), Commander of the Air Force Missile Test Center Major General Leighton I. Davis (far right), and astronaut Major Donald K. “Deke” Slayton (mostly hidden behind Mrs. Glenn).