2-860-618 - Heritage Space/Heritage Images

President Ronald Reagan at mission control, Houston, Texas, USA, November 13, 1981. The President is briefed by Johnson Space Center Director Christopher C. Kraft Jr., who points toward the orbiter spotter on the projection plotter in the front of the mission operations control room. This picture was taken just prior to a space-to-ground conversation between STS-2 crew members Joe H. Engle and Richard H. Truly, who were orbiting Earth in the space shuttle Columbia.