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White House Photographs
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President John F. Kennedy (back to camera) shakes hands with astronaut Lieutenant Commander M. Scott Carpenter (fifth from right, wearing sunglasses) at the presentation ceremony of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Distinguished Service Medal to astronaut Lieutenant Colonel John H. Glenn, Jr. at Hangar ‘S,’ Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Brevard County, Florida. Looking on from the platform (L-R): unidentified (in back, facing away), Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center Dr. Robert Gilruth (partially hidden behind Administrator of NASA James E. Webb), Administrator Webb, Senator George Smathers of Florida (with hands on head), astronaut Lieutenant Commander Walter M. Schirra, Jr. (mostly hidden behind Lieutenant Colonel Glenn), Lieutenant Colonel Glenn, his daughter Lyn Glenn (in back, partially hidden), his son David Glenn, his wife Annie Glenn (wearing red dress, with back to camera), Commander of the Air Force Missile Test Center Major General Leighton I. Davis (leaning over, with back to camera), astronaut Major Donald K. “Deke” Slayton (in back), Governor Farris Bryant of Florida (in profile), and Air Force Aide to the President Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh (in profile). The space capsule Friendship 7 is visible at far right.