Image above: CBS news anchor, Walter Cronkite, hosts a broadcast on the Apollo mission. Image credit: CBS News

KB2GSD honoured by NASA with moon rock

Veteran CBS newsman Walter Cronkite, KB2GSD, has been honored by NASA with a moon rock. This, in recognition of his decades covering the space program.

The moon rock is part of 842 pounds of samples brought back to Earth during the six Apollo lunar expeditions from 1969 to 1972.

Cronkite, who anchored the CBS Evening News from 1962 until his retirement in 1981, is the first non-astronaut and only non-NASA individual to receive the Ambassador of
Exploration Award.

KB2GSD plans to donate the lunar sample to University of Texas at Austin's Center for American History, which houses the Walter Cronkite papers. The rock will be displayed in the center's exhibit gallery.

Cronkite covered the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions, including Apollo 11 and subsequent moon landings. His marathon, live coverage on July 20, 1969, of the first moon landing brought the event into the homes of millions of Americans and observers around the world.

In recent years, he donated his talent to to the American Radio Relay League to host a pair of videos about ham radio.

Source: ARNewsline

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