Space Flight Award

The Space Flight Award is given annually to the person whose outstanding efforts and achievements have contributed most significantly to the advancement of space flight and space exploration. The Space Flight Award is the highest award bestowed by the AAS.

2008 - A. Thomas Young
2007 - Charles J. Pellerin, Jr.
2006 - Robert G. Hoey
2005 - Charles Elachi
2004 - Harold W. “Hal” Gehman, Jr.
2003 - Sally K. Ride
2002 - Roy S. Estess
2001 - John Glenn
2000 - Eileen M. Collins
1999 - Neil A. Armstrong
1998 - C. Michael Foale
1997 - Shannon W. Lucid
1996 - Edward C. Stone
1995 - Daniel S. Goldin
1994 - Carolyn L. Huntoon
1993 - John W. Young
1992 - Forrest S. McCartney
1990 - Aaron Cohen
1989 - John R. Casani
1988 - Robert O. Aller
1987 - James B. Odom
1986 - Eugene F. Kranz
1985 - Jesse W. Moore
1984 - James M. Beggs
1983 - George W. S. Abbey
1982 - Chester M. Lee
1981 - William R. Lucas
1980 - Robert F. Thompson
1979 - George W. Jeffs
1978 - Walter C. Williams
1977 - John F. Yardley
1976 - Sigurd A. Sjoberg
1975 - Maxime A. Faget and Walker E. Giberson
1974 - William C. Schneider
1973 - Rocco A. Petrone
1972 - Charles W. Mathews
1971 - Joseph G. Gavin, Jr.
1970 - Edgar M. Cortright
1969 - Christopher C. Kraft, Jr.
1968 - George M. Low and George E. Mueller
1967 - Kurt H. Debus and William H. Pickering
1966 - Robert R. Gilruth
1965 - Hugh L. Dryden (Posthumously)
1964 - No Award Given
1963 - No Award Given
1962 - Charles Stark Draper
1961 - Fred L. Whipple
1960 - Homer E. Newell
1959 - No Award Given
1958 - James A. van Allen
1957 - Wernher von Braun
1956 - George W. Hoover
1955 - Hermann Oberth