Astrophysics Science Division

Awards

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Presidential Medal of Freedom

May 3, 2024

Recipients:

Jane Rigby, an astronomer who grew up in Delaware, is the chief scientist of the world’s most powerful telescope. A prolific researcher, Dr. Rigby embodies the American spirit of adventure and wonder.

NASA Honor Award - Group Achievement Award

January 1, 2023

Recipients: Accent Bias Training PRIME Wide Field Imager Team SMD Bridge Program Workshop Organizing Committee

NASA Honor Award - Silver Achievement Medal

January 1, 2023

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NASA Honor Award - Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility Medal

January 1, 2023

NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal

January 1, 2023

NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal

January 1, 2023

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NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Public Service Medal

January 1, 2023

Recipients: Scott Friedman

NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Service Medal

January 1, 2023

Recipients: Scott Barthelmy

HEAD Innovation Prize

January 11, 2024

Tim Kallman and Javier Garcia (662) have been awarded the 2024’s AAD HEAD Innovation Prize! They share the award with Thomas Dauser “for the development of novel models to describe emission in the strong gravity regime from accreting compact objects.”
The HEAD Innovation Prize

NIAC (NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts) Award

January 4, 2024

Awarded to perform a study for an optical-UV interferometry on the Moon, "A Lunar Long-Baseline Optical Imaging Interferometer: Artemis-enabled Stellar Imager (AeSI)"
NIAC 2024 Selections

2025 Benjamin Franklin Birthday Celebration

January 1, 2024

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John Mather has been selected as the Honoree for the 2025 Benjamin Franklin Birthday Celebration: Every year the Franklin Birthday Committee selects a theme linked with Benjamin Franklin and honors a person who has done extraordinary work in this field. Recent honorees include Dr. Syliva Earle (Health of the Oceans), Wendell Berry (The Future of Food), and this year Frank Gehry (Craftsmanship).

Excellence in Mentoring

January 1, 2023

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Excellence in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA)

January 1, 2023

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Robert H. Goddard Award - Safety

January 1, 2023

Robert H. Goddard Award – Merit

January 1, 2023

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Robert H. Goddard Award – Quality and Process Improvement

January 1, 2023

Recipients: Swift Mission Operations Center

Robert H. Goddard Award – Secretarial & Clerical

January 1, 2023

Recipients: Susan Teates

Robert H. Goddard Award – Science Teams

January 1, 2023

Recipients: General Coordinates Network Circular Team PRIME Wide Field Imager Team

Robert H. Goddard Award – Science

January 1, 2023

Recipients: Scott Friedman James Fuentes

Robert H. Goddard Award – Outreach Teams

January 1, 2023

Recipients: James Webb Space Telescope Social Media Team

Robert H. Goddard Award - Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Accessibility

January 1, 2023

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NASA Honor Award - Group Achievement Award

January 1, 2022

Recipients: Time-domain Astrophysics Coordination Hub Team

TACH Team members include: Scott Barthelmy, Chris Bolt, Eric Burns, Dakota Dutko, Joe Foster, Meredith Gibb, Victor Gonzalez-Leon, Tess Jeffe, Israel Martinez, Teresa Sheets, Paul Shoemaker, Leo Singer, Alan Smale, Donggeun Tak, and Judith Racusin.

NASA Honor Award - Silver Achievement Medal (Group)

January 1, 2022

Recipients: X-ray Quantum Calorimeter (XQC) Payload Team

NASA Honor Award - Early Career Achievement Medal

January 1, 2022

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