
NASA's Dawn Mission receives nod in memory of Apollo 13 'naut for asteroid belt derring-do
Less than a year after NASA's Dawn mission sent its last squawk back to Earth, the probe is to receive the Space Foundation's 2019 John L "Jack" Swigert Jr. Award for Space Exploration.
Launched in 2007 for a planned nine-year mission, Dawn had already survived a few close shaves with cancellation before finally leaving the …
15 Feb 2019