Colorado Springs,
Colo./March 16,
2004/Satnews/
The Space Foundation named veteran
space journalist Jim Banke as director of communications. Banke brings
20 years of space journalism experience. He has covered scores of
manned and unmanned launches from Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral
Air Force Station and Kourou, French Guiana, as well as shuttle
landings at Edwards Air Force Base, NASA mission operations in Houston
and the 1989 Voyager 2 encounter of Neptune from the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory in California.
Banke assumes responsibility for all Space Foundation communications,
including media relations and publications. An immediate priority will
be management of all public outreach communications for the Coalition
for Space Exploration - a Foundation-led coalition of aerospace
companies and organizations working to support the new U.S. Space
Exploration Policy.
For the past four years, Banke was SPACE.com's senior producer in the
Cape Canaveral Bureau, where he produced authoritative reports for
Space News and SPACE.com, and provided live launch coverage for WMMB-AM
radio. Prior to joining SPACE.com, he covered space for Florida Today
and helped create the Space Online Web service.
Banke and his SPACE.com colleagues were awarded the 2003 Online News
Association's Breaking News Award for his coverage of the Columbia
disaster, and he has been recognized with a variety of honors for his
writing and online work. He earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in
Aviation and Business Administration from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical
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