President John F. Kennedy with a scale model of the Apollomand module at the Rich Building of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Hoton, Texas12 September 1962Vintage gelatin silver print on fibre-based paper, 20.5 x 25.3 cm (8 x 10 in), with Associated Press Wirephoto caption in margin and stamp on the verso, cropping remarks on the versoProvenance: from Tim Furniss collectionFootnotes:Following his speech in Congress in 1961 in which he declared the Moon landing goal, President Kennedy toured NASA facilities to personally inspect the ongoing programme preparations. After the famo Moon Speech at the Rice University (lot 44 in this sale), Kennedy toured the spacecraft displays inside a hangar at the Rich Building of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Hoton, Texas, where he delivered his remarks and received a scale model of the Apollomand module from the Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth