Through years of effort, 3 writers highlighted of this world news down to Earth, supplying a lens through which young and old might view area expedition unfold. Today, NASA acknowledged the contributions of these Chroniclers throughout a May 15, 2024, event at the company’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Associate Director of Management Burt Summerfield was at the spaceport’s Press Site for the unveiling of 3 brass plates bearing the names of the 2024 honorees– Dan Billow, Michael R. Brown, and Margaret (Maggie) Persinger.
“The Chroniclers event is among Press Site’s biggest customs,” Summerfield stated. “We get an opportunity to extend our inmost thank you to members of the media– and our NASA and market communicators– who exceed and beyond to inform our story to the world,”
The conscripts sign up with the list of 82 other Chroniclers recipients whose names hang happily on the wall in the “bullpen” at Kennedy’s Press Site, where reporters, professional photographers and broadcasters have actually collected to cover the area market because 1962.
The honorees were chosen by other members of the news media and chosen by a panel of NASA authorities and present area press reporters.
Dan Billow was born in 1960 in Orange County, California. He made his bachelor’s degree in 1982 in radio and tv from California State University in Fullerton and finished a certificate in meteorology from Mississippi State University in 2008.
Dan started his profession in 1982 as a news press reporter at KRCR-TV in Redding, California. From 1985 to 1987, he worked as a news press reporter with KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, Nevada. In 1987, Dan took a task with WESH-TV in Orlando, Florida, as a news press reporter and meteorologist. While there, he covered all area shuttle bus objectives from 1988-2011. He likewise covered NASA’s Earth and other planetary objectives, consisting of Mars landings, spacecraft flights to Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, the Sun, and Earth’s moon. Dan experienced weightlessness in a NASA KC-135 airplane in 1998, and he even experienced simulated area shuttle bus landings in a Shuttle Training Aircraft commanded by astronaut Chris Ferguson in 2011.
Dan made the Society of Professional Journalists Silver Medallion in 2003 and the duPont-Columbia Award in 2004 for protection of the Space Shuttle Columbia catastrophe, along with 3 local Emmy awards.
Dan retired in 2021, settling in heaven Ridge Mountains of Georgia with his spouse of 41 years, Rebecca. They have 3 adult kids: Alex, Jordan, and Marie.
“Spaceflight is love– there’s an aspect of splendour to it– which’s the method I covered it,” Billow stated. “Spaceflight is appeal, and I will continue to enjoy the next generation of press reporters covering it.”
Michael R. Brown served in the United States Navy from 1968 to 1972. Following his Navy service, Michael studied photography at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale from 1974 to 1976 and released his profession as a photojournalist starting with the Thomasville Times in Georgia in 1977.
