Space Flight Award
# Space Flight Award

The Space Flight Award is an award given by the American Astronautical Society most years since 1955. It is presented to "the person whose outstanding efforts and achievements have contributed most significantly to the advancement of space flight and space exploration". The Society refers to the Space Flight Award as its "highest award".

| Year | Recipient |
| - | - |
| 2021 | Tory Bruno |
| 2020 | Kathryn Lueders |
| 2018 | Ann P. Over |
| 2017 | Peggy Whitson |
| 2016 | Robert Meyerson |
| 2015 | Stamatios M. Krimigis |
| 2014 | Norman R. Augustine |
| 2013 | Charles F. Bolden, Jr. |
| 2012 | Michael T. Suffredini |
| 2011 | Space Shuttle Program |
| 2010 | William H. Gerstenmaier |
| 2009 | Glynn S. Lunney |
| 2008 | A. Thomas Young |
| 2007 | Charles J. Pellerin, Jr. |
| 2006 | Robert G. Hoey |
| 2005 | Charles Elachi |
| 2004 | Harold W. 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, 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, George E. Mueller |
| 1967 | Kurt H. Debus, William H. Pickering |
| 1966 | Robert R. Gilruth |
| 1965 | Hugh L. Dryden (Posthumously) |
| 1962 | Charles Stark Draper |
| 1961 | Fred L. Whipple |
| 1960 | Homer E. Newell Jr. |
| 1958 | James A. van Allen |
| 1957 | Wernher von Braun |
| 1956 | George W. Hoover |
| 1955 | Hermann Oberth |
