The work NASA scientists and engineers conduct is
often recognized around the world. However, it sometimes becomes even more of
an achievement to be honored at home. That's exactly what happened to three
individuals and one team in the Heliophysics Science Division at NASA's Goddard
Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
Three heliophysicists—Spiro K. Antiochos, James A.
Klimchuk, Douglas E. Rowland, and the Solar Dynamics Observatory Science
Investigation Team recently received Agency Honor Awards to celebrate their
unique contributions to NASA's mission. The awards acknowledged their great
collaborations to advance heliophysics, contributing to the young research
field of space weather that tracks how energy from the sun affects the space
environment around Earth and potentially disrupts space technology.
The Agency Honor Awards are granted annually in a
ceremony at NASA Headquarters and at each Center. Considered to be the Agency's
most prestigious honor awards, each nominee goes through a careful selection
process before the NASA administrator approves the final recipients.
The recipients were selected out of 73 individual
and 11 group nominations submitted by Goddard's Science and Exploration
Directorate. Spiro K. Antiochos, a member of the Space Weather Laboratory and
an internationally recognized astrophysicist, received the Exceptional
Scientific Achievement Medal. This award is given to both Government and
non-Government researchers who have produced key scientific discoveries or made
key contributions to their field.
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NASA Honor Awards, awards are granted in ceremony at NASA Headquarters.
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