Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C23688
President John F. Kennedy (back to camera) views a mock-up of a Gemini capsule with paraglider, during a tour of spacecraft displays inside a hangar at the Rich Building of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson stands left of President Kennedy; Director of Defense Research and Engineering for the Department of Defense, Dr. Harold Brown (facing camera), stands in center. The President visited the Center as part of a two-day inspection tour of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) field installations. [Blemishes near bottom of image are original to the negative.]