Presentation of the NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Distinguished Service Medal (DSM) to Astronaut John Herschel Glenn, Jr., at Cape Canaveral. President John F. Kennedy, astronaut Lieutenant Colonel John H. Glenn, Jr. (center), and Commander of the Air Force Missile Test Center Major General Leighton I. Davis (lower right, facing away) sit in the back seat of a convertible during the motorcade along Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, prior to the presentation ceremony of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Distinguished Service Medal to Lieutenant Colonel Glenn. Unidentified people look on. Brevard County, Florida.