The Space Technology Award was established to recognize an outstanding achievement in space technology.
Recipients:
For the first fully successful commercial Moon landing marking the longest commercial operations on the Moon to date.
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Hall Effect Rocket with Magnetic Shielding (HERMeS) team for the development of high specific impulse, long-life Hall thruster technology that is enabling propulsion for future exploration missions
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For your tireless efforts to demonstrate the first flight of a the NEXT-C ion engine that propelled the DART spacecraft, opening up new deep space mobility capabilities.
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For your technical leadership across groundbreaking programs at Ball Aerospace, and for your contributions to the profoundly unique Green Propellant Infusion Mission
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For the extraordinary achievements of the OSIRIS-REx team in surveying and acquiring a sample of the asteroid Bennu over 200 million miles from earth, which will provide the science community key information in unlocking the origins of our universe.
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For an unprecedented demonstration of rapid turnaround of a large liquid rocket engine.
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For outstanding leadership of the international LISA Pathfinder team, which delivered and operated a novel spacecraft that clearly demonstrated that a space-based observatory of gravitational waves is within our technical reach.
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She is well-known in the aerospace community as project manager for the In Space Manufacturing Initiative, and particularly for contributions in NASA’s goal of sustainable deep space missions during which astronauts can create specific critical objects across a variety of areas of need.
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For leadership in advancing the United States’ planetary exploration capabilities, including its continuously evolving spacecraft reaching planetary bodies and roving across their surfaces; in the process directly enhancing human knowledge of both the solar system and Mars in particular.
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For extraordinary contributions in technology to enable the landing of vehicles on other planets, and for creating NASA technology development programs designed to build our nation’s future space capabilities and solve grand societal challenges on Earth.
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