NASA, SpaceX, and ESA Get Awards from Popular Science
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope was honored with Popular Science magazine’s 2009 Best of What’s New Grand Award and a 2009 Breakthrough Award. Kepler’s task is detecting Earth-like planets around other stars. The magazine awarded top honors to one breakthrough in each of 10 categories; Kepler won for aviation and space.
It wasn’t the only space science mission to be honored, either. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Herschel and Planck observatories also received Breakthrough Awards.
A total of 10 programs were honored in the aviation and space category. Two other space winners were the Launch Abort System for Orion and Elon Musk’s Falcon launch vehicle.
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