Space museum to honor longtime NASA executive George English

John Talone, left, talks with George English, former director of KSC's Executive Management Office, during the annual National Space Club Debus Award Banquet. (Photo credit: NASA Images)

George English, former director of Kennedy Space Center's Executive Management Office, will be the guest of honor at an appreciation luncheon on Monday, April 13, at U.S. Space Walk of Fame Museum, 308 Pine St. in Titusville, Fla.

More than 100 people attended the John Tribe Appreciation
Luncheon in February.

English was the executive officer for NASA at Kennedy Space Center for 30 years from 1964 to 1994. 

The event will begin at 11 a.m. at the U.S. Space Walk of Fame Museum, and lunch will served at St. Gabriel’s Episcopal Church parish hall at noon. 

After lunch, the group will return to the museum for cake.

Tickets for the luncheon are $10 a person. For more information, call 321-264-0434.

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Monuments honor nearly 4,000 space workers in Florida

Surrounding monuments to the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Shuttle programs are the engraved names of nearly 4,000 space workers who made manned spaceflight possible.

Most recently, 25 names were added in December and another group of up to 100 individuals will go on a pylon at the shuttle monument in April.

Click on the following monument links to see the names already on those monuments at Space View Park in Titusville, Florida: Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Shuttle. 

The Mercury Monument was dedicated in 1995, Gemini Monument in 1997,  Apollo Monument in 2007 and Shuttle Monument in 2014.

If you worked on any part of the Apollo, Gemini, Mercury or Shuttle programs, you can have your name engraved at the monument dedicated to the program you put so much hard work and effort into supporting. 

Friends and family members may also submit their loved ones for engraving. It makes a great gift.

To start the process of reserving an engraving to honor an individual's work that became a part of man's greatest achievements, click here.

Students explore space history with scavenger hunt

What color is John Glenn's hard hat?

Whose name is on the fire axe?

What are monkey treats made of?

Those are some of the questions children can try to answer during a visit to the U.S. Space Walk of Fame Museum in Central Florida.

Children ages 15 and younger are admitted free to the museum, which has developed scavenger hunt worksheets that lead to interesting and historic displays of manned space flight in the facility.

There are two versions of the scavenger hunt worksheet for elementary school students and older children with up to 32 questions designed introduce them to the beginnings of the U.S. space program. 

Ask for a scavenger hunt worksheet at the front desk as you enter the museum at 308 Pine St., Titusville, Florida. 

At the end of the visit, children participating in the scavenger hunt get a Space Walk of Fame aluminum coin.