Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C20675
During a tour of space craft displays inside a hangar at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, President John F. Kennedy views a recovered nose cone fired by an Atlas missile. Left to right: Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara; Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh; Major General Joseph J. Preston; President Kennedy; Commander of Strategic Air Command, General Thomas S. Power.