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Space Flight Award

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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

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References

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  1. ^ "Space Flight Award | American Astronautical Society".