Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-C14-5-63
President John F. Kennedy (right, gesturing with arms extended) visits with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) officials, who presented him with a model of the Mariner 2 spacecraft (on the President's desk). Left to right: Edgar M. Cortright, Deputy Director of NASA's Office of Space Sciences; Jack N. James, Project Manager of Mariner 2 for NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL); Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Jr., Associate Administrator of NASA (in back); Robert J. Parks, Planetary Programs Director for JPL; Dr. William H. Pickering, Director of JPL; Dr. James E. Webb, Administrator of NASA (in back); President Kennedy; and an unidentified photographer (in back, on far right edge of image). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. [See also MO 63.300a, “Model of Mariner II Spacecraft.”]