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GSFC Honor Award – Team Honor Award

September 16, 2026

Recipients: Ba/DASS and GIRAFF rocket missions particle instrumentation team

Characteristics-Based Data Driving (CHAR) Team
Solar Active Region MHD Modeling Team

John C. Lindsay Memorial Award for Space Science

August 6, 2026

The John C. Lindsay Memorial Award recognizes a scientist whose recent contributions have had a substantial, lasting impact on space science. Dr. Arge is recognized for his recent, high-impact contribution to the solar "open magnetic flux problem," one of the most persistent and consequential unsolved puzzles in Heliophysics. Dr. Arge’s work exemplifies the transformation of basic scientific discovery into validated, operational capability. For his creative and rigorous resolution to this longstanding space science problem, and for the sustained international impact of his modeling work, he is exceptionally deserving of this honor.

Robert H. Goddard Award – Engineering

2024

Recipients: ROLSES Team

NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal

2024

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NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Service Medal

2024

Recipients: William D. Pesnell

Robert H. Goddard Award – Science Teams

2023

Recipients: WSA Team

Robert H. Goddard Award – Customer Service

2023

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Excellence in Mentoring

2023

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Robert H. Goddard Award – Leadership

2023

NASA Honor Award - Group Achievement Award

2023

Recipients: Accent Bias Training

CHIANTI Consortium
Interstellar Boundary Explorer Mission Operations
SMD Bridge Program Workshop Organizing Committee
SunPy Development Team

NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Public Service Medal

2022

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NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal

2022

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Robert H. Goddard Award – Engineering

2021

Recipients: BITSE (Balloon-borne Investigation of Temperature and Speed of Electrons in the corona)

NASA Honor Award - Group Achievement Award

2021

Recipients: ACE Mission Operations Team

BITSE Team

Robert H. Goddard Award – Science

2021

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Sarah Jones

Robert H. Goddard Award – Secretarial & Clerical

2021

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NASA Honor Award - Distinguished Service Medal

September 29, 2020

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NASA Honor Award - Early Career Achievement Medal

September 29, 2020

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Robert H. Goddard Award – Science Teams

2020

Recipients: Heliophysics Reconnection Theory Team

NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Achievement Medal

June 2019

GSFC Honor Award - Science

2019

NASA Honor Award - Early Career Achievement Medal

2018

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NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal

2018

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John C. Lindsay Memorial Award for Space Science

2017

Nat Gopalswamy, an astrophysicist who studies solar activity, received the John C. Lindsay award at the Lindsay Memorial Award and Lecture ceremony on Sept. 27, 2017, at NASA Goddard. This award is an annual distinction given to a Goddard scientist who exemplifies the same level of scientific achievement as Lindsay. During the 1950s and '60s, Lindsay served as the associate chief of the Space Sciences Division and headed the Goddard solar physics program. He also managed several Explorer and Pioneer missions.