IMAGE 100_199\122.Lbm,At a ceremony at the White House, President John F Kennedy congratulates Alan Shepard on his flight into space in Freedom 7 on May 5, 1961. Other Mercury astronauts look on.
IMAGE 100_199\134.Lbm,President John F Kennedy delivering his historic speech before the US Congress on May 25, 1961, in which he exhorted the nation to land a man of the Moon "before the decade is out".
IMAGE 0_99\19.Lbm,President John F Kennedy accepting a model Apollo CSM on a visit to the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, in 1962. Looking on (centre) is Lyndon B Johnson, after whom the Center is now named.