Space Coast (FL) Daily reports that NASA’s DART mission “was recognized by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics with the organization’s newest award the AIAA Award for Aerospace Excellence at the AIAA Awards Gala, Thursday, May 18, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.” DART was honored with the Award for Aerospace Excellence “which celebrates a unique program or mission in the aerospace community deserving timely recognition, namely for marking ‘humanity’s first time purposely changing the motion of a celestial object by a team of protectors of our home planet.’”
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Weather Expected to be Good for Launches Scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday
The Orlando Sentinel reports, “Space Coast weather looks to be amenable” for “a Wednesday morning launch from SpaceX and a Thursday evening liftoff from” The Boeing Company. On Wednesday, there “is another Starlink mission from SpaceX launching from Kennedy Space Center’s Pad 39-A,” and “on Thursday evening, Boeing and NASA look to send up the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex-41.”
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