Presentation of the NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Distinguished Service Medal (DSM) to Astronaut John Herschel Glenn, Jr., at Cape Canaveral. Annie Glenn, wife of astronaut Lieutenant Colonel John H. Glenn, Jr., looks inside the space capsule Friendship 7 following the presentation ceremony of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Distinguished Service Medal to Lieutenant Colonel Glenn at Hangar S,' Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Brevard County, Florida. The Friendship 7 carried Lieutenant Colonel Glenn in orbit around the earth three times. President John F. Kennedy (third from right, with back to camera) stands at far right with Lieutenant Colonel Glenn (in profile), Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center Dr. Robert Gilruth, and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (partially hidden). Others pictured include: astronaut Major Donald K. Deke Slayton (standing on platform above, left of capsule), Senator Warren G. Magnuson of Washington (in ba

Presentation of the NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Distinguished Service Medal (DSM) to Astronaut John Herschel Glenn, Jr., at Cape Canaveral. Annie Glenn, wife of astronaut Lieutenant Colonel John H. Glenn, Jr., looks inside the space capsule Friendship 7 following the presentation ceremony of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Distinguished Service Medal to Lieutenant Colonel Glenn at Hangar S,' Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Brevard County, Florida. The Friendship 7 carried Lieutenant Colonel Glenn in orbit around the earth three times. President John F. Kennedy (third from right, with back to camera) stands at far right with Lieutenant Colonel Glenn (in profile), Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center Dr. Robert Gilruth, and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (partially hidden). Others pictured include: astronaut Major Donald K. Deke Slayton (standing on platform above, left of capsule), Senator Warren G. Magnuson of Washington (in ba
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