Eugene M. Emme Award

Eugene M. Emme Award

=Eugene M. Emme Award=

The Emme Award named for NASA’s first Historian Eugene M. Emme. It was established to provide recognition to the truly outstanding book published each year serving public understanding about the positive impact of astronautics upon society. The recipient of the award is selected by a panel of reviewers from the AAS History Committee.

=Award History=2006 - , 1976-2004 by Peter J. WestwickHonorable Mention: Testing the Limits - Aviation Medicine and the Origins of Manned Space Flight by Maura Mackowski

2005 - First Man - The Life of Neil A. Armstrong by James R. Hansen

2004 - by Margaret Weitekamp

2003 - by Robert Zimmerman

2002 - by Stephen B. Johnson

2001 - Moon Lander - How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module by Thomas J. Kelly

2000 - Challenge to Apollo - The Soviet Union and the Space Race 1945 - 1974 by Asif A. Siddiqi

1999 - America’s Space Sentinels: DSP Satellites and National Security by Jeffrey T. Richelson

1998 - The New Ocean - The Story of the First Space Age by William E. Burrows

1997 - Space and the American Imagination by Howard E. McCurdy

1996 - Blind Watchers of the Sky - The People and Ideas that Shaped Our View of the Universe by Rocky Kolb

1995 - Spaceflight Revolution: NASA Langley Research Center from Sputnik to Apollo by James R. Hansen

1994 - International Cooperation in Space: The Example of the European Space Agency by Roger M. Bonnet and Vittorio Manno

1993 - The Sputnik Challenge: Eisenhower’s Response to the Soviet Satellite by Robert A. Divine

1992 - Blueprint for Space: From Science Fiction to Science Fact by Frederick I. Ordway and Randy Liebermann

1991 - Exploring the Sun: Solar Science Since Galileo by Karl Hufbauer

1990 - The Home Planet by Kevin W. Kelley

1989 - Journey Into Space: The First Thirty Years of Space Exploration by Bruce C. Murray

1988 - No Award Given

1987 - Before Lift Off by Henry S.F. Cooper, Jr.

1986 - Pioneering the Space Frontier Report of the National Commission on Space

1985 - Beachheads in Space by Jerry Grey

1984 - 2010: Space Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke

1983 - Global Talk by Joseph N. Pelton

External links

* [http://www.astronautical.org/ American Astronautical Society] Official web site.

* [http://www.astronautical.org/awards/eugene-m-emme-award/ American Astronautical Society - Eugene M. Emme Award] Official Award web site.


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