Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-23794
President John F. Kennedy (back to camera) tours spacecraft displays inside a hangar at the Rich Building of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas; astronaut Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr. (left, holding microphone), briefs President Kennedy on a mock-up of the lunar lander, also known as "the Bug" (partially visible in background). Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth, stand at right. The President visited the Center as part of a two-day inspection tour of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) field installations.