Ascending StarsTHE General James E. HillLifetime Space Achievement Award Created for SPACE FOUNDATION by B.E.Johnson and Joy Alyssa Day |
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2002Norman R. Augustine
CEO: Lockheed Martin, President: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 5-time Recipient: Distinguished Service Medal
2003James A. Lovell, Jr.
Astronaut • Pilot: Gemini 7
Commander: Gemini 12
Command Module Pilot: Apollo 8
Commander: Apollo 13
First person to travel to the Moon twice.
2004
2005Edward C. Aldridge, Jr.Director: National Reconnaissance Office, Secretary of the Air Force
2006
2007
2008Dr. Hans MarkDirector: Ames Research Center, Secretary of the Air Force, Director: National Reconnaissance Office, NASA Deputy Administrator
2009
2010John W. Young
Astronaut • Gemini 3, Commander: Gemini 10, Command Module Pilot: Apollo 10, Commander: Apollo 16, STS-1, STS-9
Chief of the Astronaut Office
2011
2012Thomas Moorman, Jr.
Commander: Air Force Space Command, Vice Chief of Staff: United States Air Force
2013Neil A. Armstrong
Astronaut • First Human To Set Foot On The Moon, X-15 Pilot, Commander: Gemini 8, Apollo 11
2013Sally K. Ride, Ph.D.
Astronaut • First American Woman In Space
Mission Specialist: STS-7, STS 41-G
2014A. Thomas Young
Vice-President: Lockheed Martin, President/COO Martin Marietta, Director: Goddard Space Flight Center
2015
2016Richard H. Truly
Astronaut • Pilot: STS-2
Commander: STS-8
Commander:
Naval Space Command
Vice Admiral USN
NASA Administrator
2017Piers Sellers, Ph.D., OBE
Astronaut • STS-112, STS-121, STS-132, Director of the Earth Science Division at NASA/GSFC
2018Christopher C. Kraft, Jr.
Director: JSC, Director of Flight Operations, Flight Director: Mercury & Gemini, Established NASA Mission Control Center and Spaceflight Rules and Procedures
2019Thomas P. Stafford
Astronaut • Gemini 6A, Gemini 9, Commander: Apollo 10, Commander: Apollo-Soyus Test Project
2020Eugene F. Kranz
NASA's second Chief Flight Director of the Gemini and Apollo programs, including the first lunar landing mission, Apollo 11. Best known for directing efforts to save the crew of Apollo 13.
2021Patti Grace Smith
Associate Administrator and Head of the FAA, Developed Rules for Human Spaceflight and oversaw the licensing of privately developed launchers and Spaceports.
2022Joanne M. Maguire
Executive Vice President Lockheed Martin Space; developing the JUNO spacecraft, Phoenix Mars Lander and the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle.
2023Daniel Goldin
NASA's longest serving Administrator: 1992-2001 overseeing Hubble Space Telescope repair, Mars Rovers and the expansion of the International Space Station.
2024Martin Faga
Assistant Secretary of the Air Force and Director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), President and Chief Executive Officer MITRE Corporation.
2025Kathryn D. Sullivan
First American Woman to Walk In Space, deployed the Hubble Space Telescope, Spacelab Payload Commander, submersible dive to the Challenger Deep, 3 Guinness World Records.
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Recipient's names are etched upon the tall glass plates. Items of Space History are embedded within the blast spheres. Its base is a blown glass representation of an RL10 Rocket Engine Bell.
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