Atlas V stacked for first International Space Station launch

The award is named for Aviation Week’s late managing editor and Cape Canaveral bureau chief, who was also a founding member of the local Space Club and mentor to many space reporters. The award is bestowed each year to a journalist and communications professional for excellence in telling the space story. CBS Radio News correspondent Peter King, of Orlando, received the news half of the award. His two decades of space reporting span the International Space Station’s construction and include the first network radio report of the Columbia accident in 2003. “As a kid, I never dreamed that I’d wind up in this far off, mythical place that I used to see on TV called Cape Canaveral or Kennedy Space Center,” King said during a ceremony at the Radisson Resort at the Port. More

(Source: Florida Today - Nov 15)