Apr 29 2009
From The Space Library
NASA honored four veteran aerospace journalists and a public affairs officer at a ceremony at KSC for their work chronicling the nation’s space program. NASA unveiled five new gold plates with the names of the late Milt Salamon, who had worked as a local columnist at Florida Today and its predecessor paper for three decades; Sue Butler of the Daytona Beach News Journal and the Associated Press; the late Jerry B. Hannifin of Time magazine; the late Rudy P. Abramson of the Los Angeles Times; and the late Frank J. Colella, the first Manager of Public Affairs at NASA’s JPL in Pasadena, California. The new plates joined 57 others that comprised the Roll of Honor, called the Chronicler’s Wall, at the NASA News Center at the Launch Complex 39 Press Site. The Chronicler’s Wall recognized career achievements of writers, journalists, broadcasters, and communicators who had covered NASA at KSC for at least 10 years. In an additional ceremony, NASA recognized Milt Salamon for his role in writing about the ordinary people who worked at KSC and lived on the Space Coast. Salamon, who had died in January 2002 at the age of 75, had worked as an engineer for Lockheed Martin in California and at Cape Canaveral before starting his writing career. He had worked at the National Enquirer before starting at Florida Today in 1974.
Todd Halvorson, “KSC Honors Columnist,” Florida Today (Brevard, FL), 30 April 2009.
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