Space Flight Award

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

References

^ "Space Flight Award | American Astronautical Society".

[1] "Space Flight Award | American Astronautical Society".

[1]

See also

References