page_title: Jack James (rocket engineer)
hierarchical_section_title: Jack James (rocket engineer)
caption_attribution_description: 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.
context_page_description: Jack Norval James was a US rocket engineer who worked for over 35 years at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, USA. His work as a Project Manager for NASA's Mariner program in the 1960s included the first planetary flyby and first photographs by a space probe of Mars. He received commendations for his work from several US Presidents, and his awards include the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal and the Stuart Ballantine Medal.
context_section_description: Jack Norval James (November 22, 1920 – August 7, 2001) was a US rocket engineer who worked for over 35 years at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, USA. His work as a Project Manager for NASA's Mariner program in the 1960s included the first planetary flyby (of Venus) and first photographs by a space probe of Mars. He received commendations for his work from several US Presidents, and his awards include the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal (1965) and the Stuart Ballantine Medal (1967).
caption: Jack N. James (center), JPL's Mariner 4 Project Manager, with a group in the White House presenting the spacecraft's famous picture Number 11 of Mars to US President Lyndon B. Johnson (center right) in July 1965.
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