AIAA Honorary Fellow Casani Died in June 2025 Written 1 July 2025

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John R. Casani, an engineer who served a central role in many of NASA’s deep space missions, died on 19 June. He was 92 years old.  Casani volunteered on the AIAA Management Technical Committee and the Institute Development Committee (1996–2000); he also served as Board of Directors Vice President of Standards (1997–2000). A Class of 2009 Honorary Fellow, Casani also was honored with the 1979 AIAA Space Systems Award, the 1991 AIAA von Kármán Lectureship in Astronautics, and the 2005 AIAA Goddard Astronautics Award.
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