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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-23793
President John F. Kennedy 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 (back to camera) stands left of President Kennedy. Also pictured: Director of Defense Research and Engineering for the Department of Defense, Dr. Harold Brown; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr.; Representative George P. Miller (California). The President visited the Center as part of a two-day inspection tour of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) field installations.