The Carl Sagan Memorial Award is an award presented jointly by the

American Astronautical Society Formed in 1954, the American Astronautical Society (AAS) is an independent scientific and technical group in the United States dedicated to the advancement of space science and space exploration. AAS supports NASA The National Aerona ...

and

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to an individual or group "who has demonstrated leadership in research or policies advancing exploration of the

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." The annual award, first presented in 1997, was created in honor of

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, astrobiologist and science popularizer, Carl Sagan (1934–1996).

Recipients

Source
American Astronautical Society
*1997 Bruce Murray *1998 Wesley Huntress *1999 Ed Stone *2000 Arnauld Nicogossian *2001 Edward Weiler *2002 California and Carnegie Planet Search Team *2003

Roald Sagdeev Roald Zinnurovich Sagdeev (russian: Роальд Зиннурович Сагдеев, tt-Cyrl, Роальд Зиннур улы Сәгъдиев; born 26 December 1932) is a Russian expert in plasma physics and a former director of the Space Res ...

*2004

Steve Squyres Steven Weldon Squyres (born January 9, 1956) is an American geologist and planetary scientist. He was the James A. Weeks Professor of Physical Sciences at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. His research area is in planetary sciences, with a f ...

and the Athena Team *2005

Michael Malin Michael C. Malin (born 1950) is an American astronomer, space scientist, and CEO of Malin Space Science Systems. His cameras have been important scientific instruments in the exploration of Mars. Malin designed and ran the orbiting Mars camera ( ...

*2006 Scott Hubbard *2007

Maria Zuber Maria T. Zuber (born June 27, 1958) is an American geophysicist who is the vice president for research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she also holds the position of the E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics in the Department ...

*2008 Lennard A. Fisk *2009 ''Award not offered'' *2010 ''Award not offered'' *2011

Charles Elachi Charles Elachi (born April 18, 1947
. ''Cedars Network''. Retrieved on February 20, 2008.) is a ...

*2012

Riccardo Giacconi Riccardo Giacconi ( , ; October 6, 1931 – December 9, 2018) was an Italian-American Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist who laid down the foundations of X-ray astronomy. He was a professor at the Johns Hopkins University. Biography Born in ...

*2013 Eileen K. Stansbery *2014

William J. Borucki William J. (Bill) Borucki (born 1939) is a space scientist who worked at the NASA Ames Research Center. Upon joining NASA in 1962, Borucki joined the group conducting research on the heat shield for Apollo program spacecraft. He later turned his ...

*2015 Frank Cepollina *2016

Alan Stern Sol Alan Stern (born November 22, 1957) is an American engineer and planetary scientist. He is the principal investigator of the ''New Horizons'' mission to Pluto and the Chief Scientist at Moon Express. Stern has been involved in 24 suborbita ...

*2017 AURA "HST & Beyond" Committee (See

Alan Dressler Alan Michael Dressler (born 23 March 1948) is an American astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science of Washington, D.C. Among his works is the popularization ''Voyage To The Great Attractor: Exploring Intergalactic Space''. Dressler was ...

.) *2018 ''no award'' *2019 Michael W. Werner *2020 Leslie Livesay *2021

Nicola Fox Nicola J. Fox (born 1968) is the Associate Administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. Appointed to the position in February 2023, she is therefore NASA's head of science. She was previously the Director of NASA's Heliophysics Science ...

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Carl Sagan Memorial Award
Awards of the American Astronautical Society Astronomy prizes Carl Sagan {{award-stub

Recipients

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