The International Academy of Astronautics has created in 2001 a special Award to recognize extraordinary performance and achievement by a team of scientists, engineers and managers in the field of Astronautics.
2023 – International Artemis 1 Mission Team / Emirates Mars Mission Team / Chang’e-5 Mission Team
2022 – Ariane 5 Team Europe for JWST Launch
2021 – Parker Solar Probe
2020 – Antares Program Team
2019 – China-Brazil Earth Resource Satellite Project
2018 – MARS-500
2017 – IKAROS Team
2016 – New Horizons Pluto Mission Team
2015 – Philae Lander Mission Team
2014 – The Mars Science Laboratory / Curiosity Mission Team
2013 – Chandrayaan-1 Mission
2012 – MESSENGER Team
2011 – Hayabusa Asteroid Sample Return Mission Team
2010 – Double Star and Cluster Team
2009 – Sea Launch Space Rocket System
2008 – International Team PSLV Cartosat
2007 – Spirit and Opportunity Missions Team
2006 – Cassini – Huygens Program Team
2005 – VLBI Space Observatory Program Team
2004 – Hubble Space Telescope Team
2003 – SOHO Team
2002 – US Space Shuttle Team
2001 – Russian Mir Space Station Team
The Laurels for Team Achievement Award 2023 to
International Artemis 1 Mission Team
The 2023 Laurels for Team Achievement recognizing extraordinary performance and achievement by a team of scientists, engineers, technicians, and managers in the field of Astronautics, are given to the Artemis 1 Team. The highly successful international Artemis 1 flight test mission lasted for 25.5 days and traveled over 1.4 million miles on a journey from Earth to the Moon and beyond; and then a safe return to Earth. The Artemis 1 mission proved that NASA’s Space Launch System deep Space rocket, Orion spacecraft, and the ground systems needed for launch and recovery are ready to fly astronauts on missions to the Moon. The SLS rocket flew as designed and with precision; the Orion spacecraft and European Service Module successfully completed all test objectives during a journey of nearly 270,000 miles beyond the Moon and farther than any spacecraft built for humans has flown. The Artemis program is intended to be the broadest and most diverse international human space exploration coalition in history.
The Laurels for Team Achievement are presented to:
NASA
Mission Management Team
Launch Control Team
Flight Control Team
Joint U.S. Navy and NASA Landing & Recovery Team
Deep Space Network
Australia – Canberra, Spain – Madrid, USA – California
ESA
European Service Module Team
Airbus
ASI, DLR, ISA, JAXA
Industry Team
Aerojet Rocketdyne, Jacobs, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Teledyne Brown,
United Launch Alliance, Northrop Grumman
The Laurels for Team Achievement Award 2023 to
Emirates Mars Mission Team
The 2023 Laurels for Team Achievement is presented to the international team of engineers, scientists, and managers who, through an extraordinary knowledge partnership, co-developed the Emirates Mars Mission, the first interplanetary mission by an Arab nation, in order to advance our understanding of the Martian atmosphere through synoptic images across all times of day. The Emirates Mars Mission was developed by an international team of 450 engineers, scientists, instrument specialists and project managers, with members from the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre in Dubai, UAE, the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado Boulder, Arizona State University and the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. This team of outstanding individuals drove the development and operation of the mission at a remarkable pace and with significant innovation. This unique combination of talents was managed as a single, integrated team to deliver an interplanetary mission with a revolutionary approach to mission design, management and execution. With its innovative elliptical orbit and three scientific instruments, the Emirates Mars Mission Hope probe is the first spacecraft at Mars able to make synoptic images across all times of day at visible, thermal infrared and far ultraviolet wavelengths.
The Laurels for Team Achievement are presented to:
Leadership team
Omran Sharaf, Pete Withnell, Sarah Al Amiri, Christopher Sanders
Core Science Team
Hessa Al Matroushi, Hoor Al Mazmi, Noora Al Mehairi,
Mariam Al Shamsi, Eman Al Tunaiji, Khalid Badri, David Brain,
Michael Chaffin, Phil Christensen, Justin Deighan,
Christopher Edwards, Francois Forget, Bruce Jakosky, Rob Lillis,
Fatma Lootah, Michael Smith, Mike Wolff, Maryam Yousuf
Engineering team
Mohsen Al Awadhi, Suhail Al Dhafri, Omran Al Hammadi,
Hamad Al Hazami, Khuloud Al Mansoori, Mahmood Al Nasser,
Zakareyya Al Shamsi, Ahmed Al Shehhi, Omar Al Shehhi, Ali Al Suwaidi, Nicolas Ferrington, Mohammed Abdulla Khoory, Brett Landin,
Brian Pramann, Heather Reed, Sean Ryan, Ayesha Sharafi, Mohammad Wali
The Laurels for Team Achievement Award 2023 to
Chang’e-5 Mission Team
The 2023 Laurels for Team Achievements are given to the Chang’e-5 Team. During the 23-day mission, the Chang’e-5 team successfully completed a complex mission including rocket launching, lunar-earth transfer, lunar sampling, lunar surface takeoff, rendezvous and docking sample transfer, skip re-entry and other processes, and obtained two types of lunar samples of lunar surface sampling and drilling sampling, making outstanding contributions to human lunar and deep space exploration. Through the Chang’e-5 mission, we discovered a new lunar mineral Chang’e-stone, revealed the existence of magmatic activity on the Moon up to 2 billion years, and found a high content of solar wind-caused water.
The Laurels for Team Achievement are presented to:
Hu Hao, Yang Mengfei, Sun Weigang, Li Haitao,
Li Chunlai, Pei Zhaoyu, Zhang Wu, Shang Zhi,
Li Gefei, Zhong Wen An, Li Dong, Peng Jing,
Yang Yong An, Wang Yong, Wang Jue, Zhang Gao,
Liu Bing, Su Yan, Ren Junjie, Hong Xin.
The Laurels for Team Achievement Award 2022 to
Ariane 5 Team Europe for JWST Launch
The 2022 Laurels for Team Achievements were given to the Ariane 5 Team Europe for the James Webb Space Telescope Launch on Christmas Day 2021 made with excellent precision allowing precious fuel to be saved on its voyage to the Lagrange point and support a very promising operational life.
The Laurels for Team Achievement are presented to:
Team Europe ESA: Daniel de Chambure, Rüdeger Albat, Dario Scoccimarro, Franciszka Dembinska, Alain Conde Reis, Sylvain Rouzaud, Frédéric Daugeron, Florian Renk, Peter Rumler, Anja Plitzke, Raymond Fels, Olivier Schmeitzky, Charlotte Beskow and ESA Kourou Office.
Team Europe ArianeGroup: Hervé Gilibert, Olivier Ricouart, Isabelle Rongier, Christophe Lannic, Hélène Requiston, Antoine Joulot, Stéphanie Perez, Stéphanie Bérard-Thiriez, Pierre Leroux , Damien Gille, Yves Aubert.
Team Europe Arianespace: Roland Lagier, Beatriz Romero, Thierry Wilmart, Guillaume Galateau, Marco Calcabrini, Laurent Barithel, Jérome Rives, Didier Corlay.
Team Europe CNES: Marie-Anne Clair, Jean-Luc Voyer, Norbert Lidon, Thierry Vallée, Marie-Hélène Ferreira, Carine Leveau.
The Laurels for Team Achievement Award 2021 to
Parker Solar Probe
The 2021 Laurels for Team Achievement is presented to the team of scientists, engineers, and managers, who conceived, developed, built, operate, analyze the data of, and continue producing paradigm-shifting scientific discoveries from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, a decades-awaited, first mission into the solar corona “to touch the Sun.”
The Laurels for Team Achievement are presented to:
Principal Science Team members: Nour E. Raouafi, Stuart D. Bale, Justin C. Kasper, David J. McComas, Mark Linton, Russell Howard, Robert B. Decker, David Malaspina, Thierry Dudok de Wit, Marc Pulupa, Anthony Case, Davin E. Larson, Eric R. Christian, Ralph L. McNutt, Jr., Mark E. Wiedenbeck, Angelos Vourlidas, Marco Velli
Core Spacecraft Team: Helene Winters, Susan L. Ensor, James D. Kinnison, Andrew S. Driesman, Patrick A. Hill, Nickalaus Pinkine, Yanping Guo, John H. Wirzburger, Robin Vaughan, Sarah A. Hamilton, Martha Kusterer, Kim A. Cooper
NASA Team: Thomas H. Zurbuchen, Nicola J. Fox, Margaret Luce, Arik Posner, Joseph S. Smith, Adam Szabo, Richard Burns, Apurva Varia
The Laurels for Team Achievement Award 2020 to
Antares Program team
For creation by the international team of the reliable, responsive and affordable commercial space launcher to ensure life support and implementation of scientific and research programs by ISS international crews.
The Laurels for Team Achievement are presented to:
USA: James R. Thompson, David W. Thompson, Antonio L. Elias, Jeffrey Campbell, Michael Hill, Daniel Van Hulle, Patrick Hoar, Michael Pinkston, Robert Richards, Kurt Eberly, Scott Lehr, Rick Francis, Michael Dorsch (Northrop Grumman).
Ukraine: Stanislav Konyukhov, Alexander Degtyarev, Sergey Davydenko, Anatoliy Kondratyuk, Maxym Degtiarov, Yevgeniy Shevtsov, Alexander Kushnarev, Dmitriy Pozdniakov, Anatoliy Agarkov, Evgeniy Baranov, Alexander Maschenko, Oleg Ventskovsky (Yuzhnoye State Design Office), Borys Batyriev (RPI HARTRON-ARKOS), Viktor Shchegol (State Enterprise “Production Association Yuzhny Machine-Building plant”).
The Laurels for Team Achievement Award 2019 to
China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellites Data Processing System
The Laurels for Team Achievement are presented to:
Wu Meirong , Xu Wen, Lu Shuning, Min Xiangjun, Wang Bingbing, Lu Shuning, Centre for Resources Satellite Data and Application (CRESDA),
José Raimundo Braga Coelho, Carlos Eduardo Santana, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)
Gu Xingfa, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
The Laurels for Team Achievement Award 2018 to
MARS-500 Team
The 2018 Laurels for Team Achievement recognizing an outstanding psychosocial isolation experiment conducted between 2007 and 2011 by the Russia‘s Federal Space Agency Roscosmos, and the Academy of Sciences‘Institute of Biomedical Problems, the European Space Agency and the China Cosmonaut Training Center. Today, when national space authorities are looking for new approaches and new goals in space exploration, recognition by the International Academy of Astronautics of Mars-500 as preparation step for future manned flight to Mars, can define mainstream for further human space missions.
The Laurels for Team Achievement are presented to:
Anatoly I. Grigoriev, Oleg I. Orlov, Mark S. Belakovskiy, Eugene P. Demin, Alexander Suvorov, Vadim I. Gushin, Sergey V. Savelyev, Maxim M. Kharlamov, Sergey S. Pozdnyakov, Eugene A. Mikrin, Peter Graef, Daniel Saccotte, Martin Zell, Marc Heppener, Christer Fuglesang, Patrik Sundblad, Jennifer Ngo-Ahn, Elena Feichtinger, Romain Charles, Diego Urbina, Oliver Knickel, Cyrille Fournier , Yinghui Li, William H. Paloski, Igor Savelev, Boris Morukov, Vladimir Solovev, Alexey Sitev, Sukhrob Kamolov , Alexandr Smoleevskiy.
The Laurels for Team Achievement Award 2017 to
IKAROS Team
The 2017 Laurels for Team Achievement recognizing extraordinary performance and achievement by a team of scientists, engineers, technicians, and managers in the field of Astronautics, are given to the IKAROS Team, whose talent, skills, and dedication made possible the demonstration of the pure solar photon propulsion and the advanced, extended solar power sail capability.
The Laurels for Team Achievement are presented to:
Osamu Mori, Yuichi Tsuda, Hirotaka Sawada,
Ryu Funase, Takayuki Yamamoto, Takanao Saiki,
Tatsuya Endo, Yoji Shirasawa, Yuya Mimasu,
Katsuhide Yonekura, Hirokazu Hoshino,
Hiroyuki Minamino and Junichiro Kawaguchi
Dr. Yuichi Tsuda, Dr. Takayuki Yamamoto, Dr. Osamu Mori and Dr. Junichiro Kawaguchi, receiving the IAA Laurels for team achievement award 2017 – IKAROS team, on 24 September 2017, in Adelaide, Australia
The Laurels for Team Achievement Award 2016 to
New Horizons Pluto Mission
The 2016 Laurels for Team Achievement recognizing extraordinary performance and achievement by a team of scientists, engineers and managers in the field of Astronautics, are given to the team of engineers and managers, whose talent, skills and dedication made possible the New Horizons Pluto Mission
The Laurels for Team Achievement are presented to:
Principal Investigator : S. Alan Stern, Project Scientist: Harold A. Weaver, Jr.
Core Spacecraft Team:
Glen H. Fountain, Thomas B. Coughlin (†), Peter D. Bedini, Alice F. Bowman, Andrew B. Calloway, Yanping Guo, Christopher B. Hersman, Mark E. Holdridge, Valerie A. Mallder, Gabe D. Rogers, Bobby G. Williams
NASA Team:
James L. Green, James E. Lee, Curt Niebur, Adriana C. Ocampo Uria
Principal Science team members:
John R. Spencer, Kimberly Ennico-Smith, Catherine B. Olkin, Leslie A. Young, Jeffrey M. Moore, G. Randy Gladstone, Will M. Grundy, Frances Bagenal,
William B. McKinnon, Andrew F. Cheng, Mihály Horányi, David J. McComas, Ralph L. McNutt, Jr.
The Laurels for Team Achievement Award 2016 ceremony (New Horizons Pluto Mission),
05 January 2017, the JHU Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, USA
The Laurels for Team Achievement Award 2015 to
Philae Lander mission
The 2015 Laurels for Team Achievement recognizing extraordinary performance and achievement by a team of scientists, engineers and managers in the field of Astronautics, are given to the team of engineers and managers, whose talent, skills and dedication made possible the Philae Lander mission.
The citation reads as follow:
The 2015 Laurels for Team Achievements is given to the Philae team, which conducted the first-ever trajectory development for a ballistic comet landing, the first on-comet operations, and the first cometary in-situ science collection. International cooperation and partnership were essential for the success of this remarkable mission.
Representing Science Team: Hermann Böhnhardt (MPS), Jean-Pierre Bibring (IAS),
Representing Flight Dynamics Team: Eric Jurado (CNES), Vincente Companys (ESA),
Representing Development Team: Andras Balazs (KFKI), Gerd Gritner (DLR), Michael Maibaum (DLR), Susan McKenna-Lawlor (STI), Reinhard Roll (MPS),
Representing Operations Team: Aurelie Moussi-Soffys (CNES), Barbara Cozzoni (DLR), Brigitte Pätz (DLR),Cedric Delmas (CNES), Cinzia Fantinati (DLR), Felix Finke (DLR), Laurence O’Rourke (ESA), Oliver Küchemann (DLR), Stephan Sous (DLR), Sven Jansen (DLR), Sylvain Lodiot (ESA), Valentina Lommatsch (DLR),
Representing Management Team: Andrea Accomazzo (ESA), Jens Biele (DLR), Paolo Ferri (ESA), Philippe Gaudon (CNES), Koen Geurts (DLR), Fred Jansen (ESA), Stephan Ulamec (DLR)
The Laurels for Team Achievement Award 2014 to
The Mars Science Laboratory / Curiosity Mission
The 2014 Laurels for Team Achievement recognizing extraordinary performance and achievement by a team of scientists, engineer s and managers in the field of Astronautics, are given to the team of engineers and managers, whose talent, skills and dedication made possible the Mars Science Laboratory / Curiosity Mission.
The citation reads as follow:
To the team of scientists, engineers and managers, to recognize superior performance over an extended period of time and exceptional achievements in science and in developing and applying technology to challenges on literally unknown territory. The skills, ingenuity and determination of each and every team member have been and still are responsible for the success of this ongoing mission. Building on past experience, the team integrated multiple capabilities in a smart, innovative and mission-focused way. International collaboration and partnership were essential to ensure scientific and technical expertise, operational excellence and exceptional project management both during development and surface operations.
The Laurels for Team Achievement are presented to: Al Chen, Richard Cook, Joy Crisp, Elizabeth Dewell, Navid Deghani, James Erickson, John Grotzinger, Dave Gruel, Joel Krajewski, Daniel Limonadi, Andrew Mishkin, Dara Sabahi, Jessica Samuels, John Simmonds, Nicole Spanovich, Adam Steltzner, Peter Theisinger, Jennifer Trosper, Ashwin Vasavada, Matthew Wallace, Michael Watkins, Richard Welch.
The Laurels for Team Achievement Award 2013 to
Chandrayaan-1 Mission
The 2013 Laurels for Team Achievement recognizing extraordinary performance and achievement by a team of scientists, engineer s and managers in the field of Astronautics, are given to the team of engineers and managers, whose talent, skills and dedication made possible the Chandrayaan-1 Mission.
The citation reads as follow:
The 2013 Laurels for Team Achievements is given to the team of scientists, engineers and managers whose talent, skills and dedication made possible to achieve the Chandrayaan-1 mission of the Indian Space Research Organization to the Moon, with unique combination of international and Indian scientific experiments comprising of five Indian payloads, two Indo-European collaborative payloads, and four international payloads from t he European Space Agency, the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, successfully resulting in significant scientific findings including discovery of water molecules on the lunar surface.
The Laurels for Team Achievement are presented to: Technology Team Leaders V. Adimurthy, S. Ramakrishnan, M. Annadurai, MY S Prasad, S K Shivakumar, J A Kamalakar Science Team Leaders J N Goswami, P Sree lrumar, R Sridharan, A S Kiran Kumar, Carle Pi eters, Stas Barabash, Paul Spudis, Manuel Grande, Urs Mall, T. Dachev
The Laurels for Team Achievement Award 2012 to
The MESSENGER Team
The 2012 Laurels for Team Achievement recognizing extraordinary performance and achievement by a team of scientists, engineers and managers in the field of Astronautics, are given to the team of engineers and managers, whose talent, skills and dedication made possible the MESSENGER Mission.
The citation reads as follow:
The 2012 Laurels for Team Achievements is given to the team of scientists and engineers whose creativity and expertise made possible the development and operation of the MESSENGER Mission, the first to orbit Mercury, as a breakthrough in scientific solar system exploration. During its unprecedented one-year primary mission, this robotic explorer has provided an extraordinary, comprehensive scientific overview of the planet, its makeup, its exosphere and its magnetosphere, providing the text for a new and overdue chapter of humankind’s knowledge of the smallest of the terrestrial planets. This unique achievement of technology was conducted by the JHU APL and accomplished with the collaboration of NASA, namely:
Team: S. C. Solomon (PI), M. H. Acuña (†), B. J. Anderson, D. Baker, W. Boynton, C. Chapman, A.Cheng, D. Domingue, W. Feldman, G. Gloeckler, R. Gold, J. Head III, S. Krimigis, W. McClintock, R. McNutt Jr., S. Murchie, S. Peale, R Phillips, L. Prockter, M. Robinson, J. Slavin, D. Smith, R. Strom, J. Trombka, M. Zuber, T. Zurbuchen
Management Team: P. Bedini, D. Grant, M. Peterson, E. Finnegan, S. Jaskulek, M. Holdridge, J. McAdams, W. Huntress
Instrument and Spacecraft Engineering Support Team: G. B. Andrews, O. Barnouin, R. Bokulic, J. Cavanaugh, C. DeBoy, C. Ercol, J. Goldsten, T. Hartka, E. Hawkins III, A. Hill, G. Ho, H. Korth, M. Lankton, D. Lohr, R. Moore, L. Mosher (†), G. Neumann, J. Raines, E. Rhodes, C. Schlemm II, R. Stillwell, R. Vaughan, S. Wiley
The Laurels for Team Achievement Award 2011 to
The Hayabusa Asteroid Sample Return Mission Team
The 2011 Laurels for Team Achievement recognizing extraordinary performance and achievement by a team of scientists, engineers and managers in the field of Astronautics, are given to the team of engineers and managers, whose talent, skills and dedication made possible Hayabusa.
The citation reads as follow:
To the team of scientists and engineers whose creativity and expertise made possible the development and operation of the Hayabusa Asteroid Sample Return Mission as a breakthrough in scientific solar system exploration. This unique achievement of technology and international cooperation was conducted by ISAS/JAXA and accomplished with the collaboration of NASA, USA and Australia officials, namely:
Japan: Junichiro Kawaguchi, Hitoshi Kuninaka, Akira Fujiwara, Makoto Yoshikawa, Kazuo Tsuchiya, Shinichi Hagino,
USA: Donald K. Yeomans, Michael E. Zolensky, Scott A. Sandford
Australia: Trevor R. Ireland
The Laurels for Team Achievement Award 2010 to
The Double Star and Cluster Team
To the team of engineers and managers, whose talent, skills and dedication made possible the Double Star and Cluster Team. Representing both the first Chinese space science mission and the first Sino-European space program cooperation, the team of scientists, engineers and managers of the Double Star and Cluster missions have made the extraordinary achievement of the first ever coordinated six-point multiple-satellite measurements, which have advanced our understanding of the dynamic properties of the Earth’s magnetosphere, in both macro and micro scales.
China: Zhenxing Liu, Ji Wu, Yongwei Zhang, Shigeng Yuan, Qiang Liu, Kaixiang Zeng, Yansong Xu, Hongliang Xu, Zuyin Pu, Jiankui Shi, Jinbin Cao, Chao Shen, Li Lu, Shoulun Dai, Jinrong Cai, Fengyu Liao, Fengmei Bian, Guangwu Zhu, Xiaomin Chen, Xin Meng, Xuzhi Li
Europe: C. Philippe Escoubet, Bodo Gramkow, Karl Bergquist, Henri Reme, Susan McKenna-Lawlor, Andrew Fazakerley, Christopher Carr, Tielong Zhang, Nicole Cornilleau-Wehrlin, Hugo Alleyne, Klaus Torkar, Trevor Dimbylow, Roland Nord, Stephane Osipenco, Gunter Laky, Eric Soerensen
The Laurels for Team Achievement Award 2009 to
The Sea Launch Space Rocket System
To the team of engineers and managers whose creativity and skill made it possible to develop and operate the Sea Launch space rocket system as a unique achievement of technology and international cooperation by some the world largest aerospace companies.
The Laurels for Team Achievement Award 2009 is given to the Sea Launch Space Rocket System Team of distinguished experts, namely: USA: James Maser, Bohdan Bejmuk, Аllen Ashby, Boeing Company,
Ukraine: Stanislav Konyukhov, Alexander Degtyarev, Vladimir Goudim, Yuzhnoye State Design Office, Yuriy Alexeev, Alexander Naumenko, Viktor Denisov, Yuzhny State Enterprise Production Association, Vladimir Gorbulin, founder of National Space Agency of Ukraine,
Russia: Yuriy Semenov, Viktor Legostaev, Valeriy Aliev, Vyacheslav Filin, RSC Energia, Yuriy Koptev, Federal Space Agency of Russia,
Norway: Per Herbert Christensen, Jan Bakke, Kjell Karlsen, Company Aker ASA (Kvaerner).
The Laurels for Team Achievement Award 2008 to
The International Team PSLV Cartosat
The 2008 Laurels for Team Achievement to recognize extraordinary performance and achievement by a team of scientists, engineers and managers in the field of Astronautics, are the team of engineers and managers, whose talent, skills and dedication made it possible to successfully complete realization and launch of India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), the Indian Remote Sensing Satellite Cartosat-2, deployment and recovery of the Space capsule Recovery Experiment (SRE) and two satellites from international customers, the Indonesian satellite Lapan-Tubsat and Argentina’s nano-satellite Pehuensat-1 in a single mission.
The Laurels are given on behalf of thousand of scientists, engineers and others who contributed in the critical technology areas such as development of launch vehicle, high resolution imaging satellite and promoting international cooperation:
N. Narayana Moorthy Mission Director, George Koshy, Launch Vehicle, V. Ganesan, Liquid Propulsion, M. Krishnaswamy, Cartosat-2, A. S. Kiran Kumar, Imaging Systems, N. K. Malik, S/C Mission & Control, A. Subramonian, Satellite Recovery Experiment, N. C. Bhat, SRE Mission Reentry, S. K. Shivakumar, Tracking, Telemetry & Command, V. Krishnamurthy, SRE Recovery, M. R. Ajith, Thermal Protection System, P. S. Sastry, Program & International Cooperation.
The Laurels for Team Achievement Award 2007 to
Spirit and Opportunity Missions Team
From their spectacular launches to their breakthrough science return, Spirit, Opportunity, and their precursor Sojourner, are the most successful robotic explorers of the surface of Mars. They have continually captured the public imagination and provided the scientific community with tools of unprecedented capability that have greatly increased our knowledge of surface geology and past environments that might have fostered life. The missions were made possible by the team of scientists, engineers, managers, and support staff from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who have dedicated their careers to robotic exploration.
The Laurels for Team Achievement Award 2007 is given to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Team of distinguished experts, namely:
Mark Adler, Deputy Mission System Manager, Deputy Project Manager (extended mission), John L. Callas, Science Manager; Project Manager (current), Richard A. Cook, Flight System Manager; Project Manager (prime mission), Joy A. Crisp, Project Scientist, James K. Erickson, Mission System Manager; Project Manager (extended mission), Robert M. Manning, Flight System Engineer, Jacob R. Matijevic, System Engineering; Engineering Team Chief (extended mission), Steven W. Squyres, Principal Investigator, Peter C. Theisinger, Project Manager (pre-launch & prime mission), Jennifer H. Trosper, Project System Engineer.
The Laurels for Team Achievement Award 2006 to
Cassini – Huygens Program Team
From its spectacular launch to its breakthrough science return Cassini-Huygens has continually captured the public imagination and provided the scientific community with a tool of unprecedented discovery. The epochal landing of the Huygens probe on the surface of Titan and the continuous sustaining discoveries of Cassini of the Saturn planetary system with its rings and moons will go into history as one of the milestones in the exploration of our solar system. This is made possible by the team of scientists, engineers, managers, and support staff from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the European Space Agency who have dedicated their careers to this purpose.
The Laurels for Team Achievement Award 2006 is given to the Cassini – Huygens Program Team of distinguished experts, namely:
Enrico Flamini, Daniel Gautier, Hamid Hassan, Gérard Huttin, Wing H. Ip, Jean-Pierre Lebreton, Dennis Matson, Robert T. Mitchell, Toby Owen, Richard J. Spehalski.
The Laurels for Team Achievement Award 2005 to
The VLBI Space Observatory Program Team
The technique of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) has enabled the longest astronomical wavelengths to be used to produce the highest angular resolution images. The VLBI Space Observatory Program (VSOP) realized the long-held dream of radio astronomers of extending those baselines into space by observing celestial radio sources with the HALCA satellite, supported by a dedicated network of tracking stations and arrays of ground radio telescopes from around the world. Representing the entire VSOP Team are the astronomers and engineers who made key contributions to realizing and operating a radio telescope bigger than the Earth.
The Laurels for Team Achievement Award 2005 is given to the Very Long Baseline Interferometry Space Observatory Program Team of distinguished experts, namely: Haruto Hirosawa, ISAS, Hisashi Hirabayashi, ISAS, Yasuhiro Murata, ISAS, Makoto Inoue, NAO, Hideyuki Kobayashi, NAO, Noriyuki Kawaguchi, NAO, Joel Smith, JPL, Robert Preston, JPL, Jon Romney, NRAO, Edward Fomalont, NRAO, Peter Dewdney, DRAO, Leonid Gurvits, VLBI, David Jauncey, CSIRO, Takeshi Orii, NEC TOSHIBA, Kazuo Miyoshi, MELCO.
The Laurels for Team Achievement Award 2004 to
The Hubble Space Telescope Team
From its spectacular launch and dramatic repair and upgrades to its regular revelations about our Universe, Hubble has captured the public imagination and provided the scientific community with a tool of unprecedented discovery. It has served as a source of inspiration to people around the world. This is made possible by the team of scientists, engineers, managers, and support staff from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the European Space Agency and the Space Telescope Science Institute who have dedicated their careers to this purpose.
The Laurels for Team Achievement Award 2004 is given to the Hubble Space Telescope outstanding team of distinguished experts, namely:
John Bahcall, Preston Burch, John Campbell, Frank Cepollina, Hugh Dougherty, Rodger Doxsey, Holland Ford, Riccardo Giacconi, John Grunsfeld, Keith Kalinowski, Duccio Macchetto, Story Musgrave, Robin Laurance, David Leckrone, Robert O’Dell, James Odom, Jean Olivier, Adam Riess, Joseph Rothenberg, Ronald Sheffield, Larry Simmons, Lyman Spitzer, John Trauger, Edward Weiler, Bruce Woodgate.
The Laurels for Team Achievement Award 2003 to
The SOHO Team
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory Team was selected to receive the third Laurels for Team Achievement Award.
To the team of scientists, engineers and managers whose talents, skills and dedication made possible the development and operation of the world class SOHO mission leading to substantial advancements in understanding the Sun and the solar-terrestrial relationship:
Science
Prof. Roger-Maurice Bonnet, Director of Science, ESA, Dr. Paal Brekke, SOHO Deputy Project Scientist, ESA, Dr. Vicente Domingo, SOHO Project Scientist, ESA, Dr. Bernhard Fleck, SOHO Project Scientist, ESA, Dr. Joseph B. Gurman, SOHO Project Scientist, NASA, Prof. Martin C.E. Huber, Head of the Space Science Department, ESA, Dr. J. David Bohlin, SOHO Program Scientist, NASA, Dr. Arthur I. Poland, SOHO Project Scientist, NASA
Spacecraft Engineering
Michel Bouffard, SOHO Project Manager, Astrium Toulouse, Fabrizio Felici, SOHO Project Manager, ESA, Rob Harris, AOCS Engineer, BAE Bristol, Michel Janvier, AOCS Engineer, Astrium Toulouse, Ken Sizemore, SOHO Project Manager, NASA, Francis Vandenbussche, SOHO Spacecraft Manager and Head of Recovery Team, ESA
Ground Segment
Harold W. Benefield, Head of the Flight Operations Team, Honeywell, Dr. Luis Sanchez, SOHO Science Data Coordinator, ESA, Dr. Chris St. Cyr, Ground Segment Lead Scientist, NASA, William D. Worrall, Ground Segment Manager, NASA
The Laurels for Team Achievement Award 2002 to
The US Space Shuttle Team
The citation of the Laurels for Team Achievement Award reads:
To the team of engineers and managers, whose talent, skills and dedication made it possible to successfully complete the design and development of the Space Shuttle, a piloted reusable launch vehicle and spacecraft which has the capability to deploy and retrieve payloads in Earth orbit, and to successfully operate it for over twenty years. The Space Shuttle Team consists of thousands of engineers, scientists, technicians, support personnel, operators and crewmembers.
On behalf of the entire Space Shuttle Team are highlighted those who contributed most to its early development, particularly in the key critical technology areas of propulsion, thermal protection and avionics, and those who are responsible for its current operations:
NASA Developers
Arnold D. Aldrich, Aaron Cohen, Robert L. Crippen, Maxime Faget, Christopher C. Kraft, Robert E. Lindstrom, George F. Page, J.R. Thompson, Robert F. Thompson, John Yardley, John W. Young
Industry Developers
Richard M. Davis, Edward G. Dorsey, George Jeffs, John B. Peller, Dominick Sanchini, Ed Smith,
Current Operators
Dennis R. Deel, Ron Dittemore, Howard DeCastro, Frederick D. Gregory, Steven S. Oswald, Gerald W. Smith, William F. Readdy, Russ Turner, Byron K.Wood
The Laurels for Team Achievement Award 2001 to
The Russian Mir Space Station Team
The citation of the Laurels for Team Achievement Award reads:
To the team of scientists, engineers and managers, whose efforts, talent and skills made it possible to perform and successfully complete the first unique historical 15-year long flight of the Mir Space Station.
In this multi-year and multi-level activity the main roles were played by an outstanding team of Russian distinguished experts, namely:
Yu P. Semenov (RSC Energia), A.I. Kiselev (Khrunitchev Company), A.F. Strekalov (RSC Energia), N.I. Zelenschikov (RSC Energia), A.I. Grigoriev (SRC IBMP RAS), G.I. Severin (Zvezda Corporation), P.I. Klimuk (Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center), V.A. Solovyov (RSC Energia), and L.A. Gorshkov (RSC Energia).
