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NSS Space Pioneer Awards
The annual Space Pioneer awards recognize those individuals and teams whose
accomplishments have helped to open the space frontier. The awards
are divided into thirteen categories.
The intent is to recognize those who have made significant
contributions in different fields of endeavor to "develop a
spacefaring civilization that will establish communities beyond the
Earth."
The usual number of Space Pioneer awards per year is three, so not every category is awarded each year. The 13 Space Pioneer Award categories are:
- Business/Corporate
- Business/Entrepreneur
- Compelling Art
- Educator/Education
- Government Service (Non-legislative)
- Government Service (Legislative)
- Mass Media
- Public Awareness
- Scientist/Engineer
- Service to the Space Community
- Space Development
- Special Merit
- Wide Media.
The Space Pioneer awards consist of a cast globe of the Moon.
Space Pioneer Award Winners:
- 2008 - "The Caballeros" Col. Mike Hornitschek, USAF, Col. M.V. “Coyote” Smith, USAF, Lt. Col. Peter Garretson, USAF, Lt. Col. Paul Damphousse, USMC, and Gen. James Armor (Ret.) [Space Development]
- 2008 - Anita E. Gale [Education]
- 2008 - Al Globus [Education]
- 2008 - Patricia Grace Smith [Government Service (Non-legislative)]
- 2007 - Kenneth Cox [Space Development]
- 2007 - Heinz Hermann Koelle [Special Merit]
- 2006 - Elon Musk [Business/Entrepreneur]
- 2006 - JAXA HAYABUSA (MUSES-C) Mission Team [Scientist/Engineer]
- 2006 - Michael Griffin [Space Development]
- 2005 - Paul Allen [Business/Entrepreneur]
- 2005 - Mars Exploration Rover Team, accepted by Dr. Steven Squyres [Scientist/Engineer]
- 2005 - Dr. Boris Smeds, ESA, for Cassini/Huygens mission [Scientist/Engineer]
- 2004 - Rep. Sherwood Boehlert [Government Service (Legislative)]
- 2001 - Leonard David [Mass Media]
- 2001 - Dr. Robert Farquhar, Mission Director, and the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) Mission Team [Scientist/Engineer]
- 1998 - George French for MoonLink [Business/Entrepreneur]
- 1998 - Alan Binder [Scientist/Engineer]
- 1997 - Greg Allison [Business/Entrepreneur]
- 1997 - Rep. James Sensenbrenner, for Commercial Space Act of 1997 [Government Service (Legislative)]
- 1997 - Mars meteorite team [Scientist/Engineer]
- 1997 - Lori Garver [Special Merit]
- 1996 - Charlie Chafer [Business/Entrepreneur]
- 1996 - Jeff Kluger [Mass Media]
- 1996 - Peter Diamandis [Special Merit]
- 1995 - Glenn Heinmiller [Mass Media]
- 1995 - General Daniel Graham [Special Merit]
- 1995 - Dr. Mark Albrecht [Special Merit]
- 1994 - Dr. Stewart Nozette [Scientist/Engineer]
- 1994 - Tim Kyger [Special Merit]
- 1993 - McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Delta Clipper Team [Business/Corporate]
- 1993 - Dr. Daniel Goldin [Special Merit]
- 1992 - Westinghouse Electric Corporation Commercial and Civil Space Division [Business/Corporate]
- 1992 - Barbara Morgan [Education]
- 1992 - Sen. Barbara Mikulski [Government Service (Legislative)]
- 1991 - Women in Aerospace [Public Awareness]
- 1991 - K. Eric Drexler [Space Development]
- 1990 - Orbital Sciences Corporation [Business/Corporate]
- 1990 - Virginia’s Center for Innovative Technology [Business/Entrepreneur]
- 1990 - Rep. Ron Packard [Government Service (Legislative)]
- 1990 - Lyman Spitzer, Jr. [Scientist/Engineer]
- 1989 - 3M Corporation [Business/Corporate]
- 1989 - James Bennett [Business/Entrepreneur]
- 1989 - Pat Rawlings [Compelling Art]
- 1989 - The Challenger Center [Education]
- 1989 - Sen. Jake Garn [Government Service (Legislative)]
- 1989 - Wendell Mendell [Scientist/Engineer]
- 1988 - Gilbert W. Keyes, Boeing [Business/Corporate]
- 1988 - Byron Lichtenberg [Business/Entrepreneur]
- 1988 - Dermot Burke and the Princeton Ballet for “A Tribute” [Compelling Art]
- 1988 - Kamil Naguib, World Aerospace Education Foundation [Education]
- 1988 - Rep. George Brown, Jr. [Government Service (Legislative)]
- 1988 - Doug Morrow, Richard MacLeod, U.S. Space Foundation [Mass Media]
- 1988 - Thomas Rogers [Scientist/Engineer]
- 1988 - Craig Covault [Wide Media]
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