The Eugene M. Emme Award is an award

Award

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 given annually to a person or persons selected by a panel of reviewers from the American Astronautical Society

American Astronautical Society

Formed in 1954, the American Astronautical Society is an independent scientific and technical group in the United States dedicated to the advancement of space science and exploration. AAS supports NASA's Vision for Space Exploration and is a member of the Coalition for Space Exploration and the...

 History Committee to recognize "the truly outstanding book published each year serving public understanding about the positive impact of astronautics

Astronautics

Astronautics, and related astronautical engineering, is the theory and practice of navigation beyond the Earth's atmosphere. In other words, it is the science and technology of space flight....

 upon society." The award is in honor of Eugene M. Emme, NASA

NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...

's first historian.

List of recipients

• 2008 – Digital Apollo: Human and Machines in Spaceflight - David A. Mindell
• 2007 – Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War - Michael J. Neufeld
• 2006 Award - Into the Black: JPL and the American Space Program, 1976-2004 - Peter W. Westwick
• 2006 Honorable Mention - Testing the Limits - Aviation Medicine and the Origins of Manned Space Flight - Maura Mackowski
• 2005 - First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
  First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
  First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong is the official biography of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon. It was written by James R. Hansen and published in 2005 by Simon & Schuster.-Development:...
  
   - James R. Hansen
• 2004 - Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: America’s First Women in Space Program - Margaret Weitekamp
• 2003 - Leaving Earth: Space Stations, Rival Superpowers, and the Quest for Interpanetary Travel - Robert F. Zimmerman
• 2002 - The Secret of Apollo: Systems Management in American and European Space Programs - Stephen B. Johnson
• 2001 - Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module - Thomas J. Kelly
• 2000 - Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945- 1974 - Asif Azam Siddiqi
  Asif Azam Siddiqi
  Asif Azam Siddiqi is a Bangladeshi American space historian. He is an assistant professor of history at Fordham University and member of advisory board at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology. He specializes in the history of science and technology and modern Russian history. He has...
  
  
• 1999 - America's Space Sentinels: DSP Satellites and National Security - Jeffrey T. Richelson
  Jeffrey T. Richelson
  Jeffrey Talbot Richelson is an American author and academic researcher who studies the process of intelligence gathering and national security...
  
  
• 1998 - This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age - William E. Burrows
• 1997 - Space and the American Imagination - Howard E. McCurdy
  Howard E. McCurdy
  Howard E. McCurdy is professor of public affairs in the public administration and policy department at American UniversityMcCurdy is considered an expert on space policy and NASA. In 1998, he was selected to be the Charles A...
  
  
• 1996 - Blind Watchers of the Sky: The People and Ideas that Shaped Our View of the Universe - Edward W. "Rocky" Kolb
  Edward Kolb
  Edward W. Kolb, usually known as Rocky Kolb, is a cosmologist and a professor at the University of Chicago. He has worked on many aspects of the big bang cosmology, including baryogenesis, nucleosynthesis and dark matter. He is author, with Michael Turner, of the popular textbook The Early Universe...
  
  
• 1995 - Spaceflight Revolution: NASA Langley Research Center from Sputnik to Apollo - James R. Hansen
• 1994 - International Cooperation in Space: The Example of the European Space Agency - Roger M. Bonnet and Vittorio Manno
• 1993 - The Sputnik Challenge: Eisenhower's Response to the Soviet Satellite - Robert A. Divine
• 1992 - Blueprint for Space: From Science Fiction to Science Fact - Frederick I. Ordway III
  Frederick I. Ordway III
  Frederick Ira Ordway III is a space scientist and well-known author of visionary books on spaceflight. He owns a large collection of original paintings depicting astronautical themes. Ordway was educated at Harvard and completed several years of graduate study at the University of Paris and other...
  
   and Randy Liebermann
• 1991 - Exploring the Sun: Solar Science Since Galileo - Karl Hufbauer
• 1990 - The Home Planet - Kevin W. Kelley
• 1989 - Journey Into Space: The First Thirty Years of Space Exploration - Bruce C. Murray
  Bruce C. Murray
  Bruce C. Murray was born November 30, 1931 in New York, NY. He is a professor emeritus of planetary science and geology at Caltech and was Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory from April 1, 1976 to June 30, 1982.He received his Ph.D...
  
  
• 1988 - No award given
• 1987 - Before Lift Off - Henry S.F. Cooper, Jr.
• 1986 - Pioneering the Space Frontier: Report of the National Commission on Space - National Commission on Space
• 1985 - Beachheads in Space - Jerry Grey
• 1984 - 2010: Space Odyssey Two - Arthur C. Clarke
  Arthur C. Clarke
  Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, famous for his short stories and novels, among them 2001: A Space Odyssey, and as a host and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World. For many years, Robert A. Heinlein,...
  
  
• 1983 - Global Talk - Joseph N. Pelton

External links

• Eugene M. Award from the American Astronautical Society
  American Astronautical Society
  Formed in 1954, the American Astronautical Society is an independent scientific and technical group in the United States dedicated to the advancement of space science and exploration. AAS supports NASA's Vision for Space Exploration and is a member of the Coalition for Space Exploration and the...