American Astronautical Society

The Future Space Leaders Foundation has announced the six winners of its annual Future Space Leaders Grant Program.  The Foundation will provide grants to six graduate students and young professionals to cover expenses associated with participating in the 66th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Jerusalem, Israel, one of the world’s most important space industry gatherings.  The six grant winners will also have access to other industry events including: Future Space 2015, the AAS Goddard Memorial Symposium, NSC Goddard Memorial Dinner, Satellite 2016, SGAC Congress and Fusion Forum, SSPI Gala, SSPI Future Leaders Dinner, AIAA Spotlight Awards Gala and ISPCS.  After a rigorous and competitive application process, the grant winners were selected on the basis of their commitment to the advancement of space sciences and the quality of their abstracts to be presented at the 66th IAC.  The 2015-16 FLSF Grant Winners are:

Dr. Justin Atchison, PhD is a mission design and navigation engineer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory; Sarah Flannigan is an engineer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory who has participated in the MESSENGER and New Horizons missions; Raphael Perrino is a (read more...)