Presenting Mariner 4 Photo to President Johnson
Photograph Number P-5108B

In July 1965, at a White House ceremony, President Lyndon B. Johnson was presented with a copy of Mariner 4's famous picture Number 11, which revealed large impact craters and other topographical features of Mars. From left are Dr. William H. Pickering, Director of JPL; Oran Nicks, NASA's Director of Lunar and Planetary Programs; Jack N. James, JPL's Mariner 4 Project Manager; President Johnson; and James Webb, NASA Administrator.

On the same day, Jack James was awarded the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement medal by President Johnson, for managing the Mariner 4 mission to Mars. James, who worked at JPL from 1950 to 1986, passed away on August 7, 2001. For more information about him, see the extensive biographical note in the BEACON-Archives online catalog record for the Jack N. James Collection (JPL119) or the brief obituary in the August 17, 2001 issue of Universe, the JPL employee newspaper.

For more information about the Mariner missions, contact the JPL Archives.

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