Space Flight Award
Topic: Engineering
From HandWiki - Reading time: 2 min
The Space Flight Award is an award given by the American Astronautical Society most years since 1955. It is presented to "the person whose outstanding efforts and achievements have contributed most significantly to the advancement of space flight and space exploration". The Society refers to the Space Flight Award as its "highest award".[1]
| Year | Recipient | References |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Tory Bruno | |
| 2020 | Kathryn Lueders | |
| 2018 | Ann P. Over | |
| 2017 | Peggy Whitson | |
| 2016 | Robert Meyerson | |
| 2015 | Stamatios M. Krimigis | |
| 2014 | Norman R. Augustine | |
| 2013 | Charles F. Bolden, Jr. | |
| 2012 | Michael T. Suffredini | |
| 2011 | Space Shuttle Program | |
| 2010 | William H. Gerstenmaier | |
| 2009 | Glynn S. Lunney | |
| 2008 | A. Thomas Young | |
| 2007 | Charles J. Pellerin, Jr. | |
| 2006 | Robert G. Hoey | |
| 2005 | Charles Elachi | |
| 2004 | Harold W. Gehman, Jr. | |
| 2003 | Sally K. Ride | |
| 2002 | Roy S. Estess | |
| 2001 | John Glenn | |
| 2000 | Eileen M. Collins | |
| 1999 | Neil A. Armstrong | |
| 1998 | C. Michael Foale | |
| 1997 | Shannon W. Lucid | |
| 1996 | Edward C. Stone | |
| 1995 | Daniel S. Goldin | |
| 1994 | Carolyn L. Huntoon | |
| 1993 | John W. Young | |
| 1992 | Forrest S. McCartney | |
| 1990 | Aaron Cohen | |
| 1989 | John R. Casani | |
| 1988 | Robert O. Aller | |
| 1987 | James B. Odom | |
| 1986 | Eugene F. Kranz | |
| 1985 | Jesse W. Moore | |
| 1984 | James M. Beggs | |
| 1983 | George W. S. Abbey | |
| 1982 | Chester M. Lee | |
| 1981 | William R. Lucas | |
| 1980 | Robert F. Thompson | |
| 1979 | George W. Jeffs | |
| 1978 | Walter C. Williams | |
| 1977 | John F. Yardley | |
| 1976 | Sigurd A. Sjoberg | |
| 1975 | Maxime A. Faget, Walker E. Giberson | |
| 1974 | William C. Schneider | |
| 1973 | Rocco A. Petrone | |
| 1972 | Charles W. Mathews | |
| 1971 | Joseph G. Gavin, Jr. | |
| 1970 | Edgar M. Cortright | |
| 1969 | Christopher C. Kraft, Jr. | |
| 1968 | George M. Low, George E. Mueller | |
| 1967 | Kurt H. Debus, William H. Pickering | |
| 1966 | Robert R. Gilruth | |
| 1965 | Hugh L. Dryden (Posthumously) | |
| 1962 | Charles Stark Draper | |
| 1961 | Fred L. Whipple | |
| 1960 | Homer E. Newell Jr. | |
| 1958 | James A. van Allen | |
| 1957 | Wernher von Braun | |
| 1956 | George W. Hoover | |
| 1955 | Hermann Oberth |
See also
- List of space technology awards
References
 |  |
Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 | Source: https://handwiki.org/wiki/Engineering:Space_Flight_Award10 views | Status: cached on July 13 2024 22:25:03↧ Download this article as ZWI file
EncycloReader
is supported by the 
KSF