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Awards & Honors

AWARDS & HONORS

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Welcome to the awards page for Goddard's Science and Exploration Directorate! Goddard is proud of its workforce and our goal is to help our civil servant and contract personnel and staff obtain recognition for their outstanding achievements from their professional communities, NASA, and the Goddard Space Flight Center.

These web pages are designed to help you locate community, NASA and Goddard award opportunities for your colleagues in Code 600 and to provide contact information for internal prize committees. We hope to facilitate getting deserving people nominated for the right prizes and to communicate our awardees to our management and the external community.

Featured Honors

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Goddard Scientists Receive Lindsay Award for Black Hole Research
Dr. Joan M. Centrella and Dr. John G. Baker are the 2008 recipients of the John C. Lindsay Memorial Award for Space Science. NASA.s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., honors one or more of its civil servant space scientists each year with this award, which is the center's highest honor for outstanding contributions in space science.