AN EVENING WITH NASA LEGEND JAY HONEYCUTT

Name: AN EVENING WITH NASA LEGEND JAY HONEYCUTT
Start: 2025-09-10T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-10T21:00:00-04:00
Location: Italian American Club of South Brevard

Schedule

Wed Sep 10 2025 at 06:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Italian American Club of South Brevard | Melbourne, FL

AN EVENING WITH NASA LEGEND JAY HONEYCUTT
SEPT. 10TH AT MELBOURNE’S ITALIAN AMERICAN CLUB
The American Space Museum will host a series of “NASA Legends Dinner” to offer the public an informal evening with notable leaders of America’s space program, and we are honored to announce Jay Honeycutt, former director of Kennedy Space Center, as our inaugural event presenter on Wednesday, Sept.10 at the Italian American Club of Melbourne.
ASM’s “Evening with Jay Honeycutt” will be from 6-9 pm with cocktails, dinner and a conversation about NASA’s past and present from one of America’s key managers of Apollo and Space Shuttle programs.
Cost is $50 for dinner at this ASM fundraiser, and tickets may be purchased at the Italian American Club website: https://iac321official.com . The location is 1471 Cypress Avenue, the Eu Galle district of Melbourne.
Cocktails will be at 6 pm, with Honeycutt speaking at 6:30 pm. followed by dinner at 7 pm. A short documentary on NASA's crewed spaceflights, created by a team led by Honeycutt, will be shown during dinner, followed by Q & A.
Honeycutt, a resident of Cocoa Beach, Florida with is wife Peggy, will share his views on the past and the planned future activities that he has been a part of during his 60-plus years in the space field.
He joined NASA in the mid-1960s, and became one of the lead managers at Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas of the mission simulations used to train the flight crews and flight controllers for each of the Apollo missions. Honeycutt was one of the senior leaders during the development and the early missions of the Space Shuttle while at JSC.
In March 1989, Honeycutt was transferred to Kennedy Space Center, initially serving as Director of Shuttle Management and Operations, and later as Director of America’s Space Port. In these roles, he was responsible for all aspects of Shuttle preparation, launch and recovery of 55 Space Shuttle launches.
Born in Jena, Louisiana, Honeycutt has an electrical engineering degree from the University of Louisiana, Lafayette.
Join this unique opportunity to dine with Jay Honeycutt, a person who has made a difference in America’s Space Age, and support the non-profit U.S. Space Walk of Fame Foundation, doing business as the American Space Museum in Downtown Titusville, Florida.