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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Astronomy prizes, Wright Brothers Medal, Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Ansari X Prize, Lunar Lander Challenge, Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Janssen Medal, Nininger Meteorite Award, Bruce Medal, Prix Jules Janssen, America's Space Prize, Henry Norris Russell Lectureship, Eddington Medal, Harold Brown Award, Gruber Prize in Cosmology, Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award, Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy, Henry Draper Medal, Robert J. Trumpler Award, Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy, James Craig Watson Medal, Bruno Rossi Prize, IEEE Judith A. Resnik Award, Jackson-Gwilt Medal, Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics, George Van Biesbroeck Prize, Ludwig Biermann Award, Karl Schwarzschild Medal, Leonard Medal, Brouwer Award, Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize, Heinlein Prize for Advances in Space Commercialization, G. K. Gilbert Award, Barringer Medal, Klumpke-Roberts Award, Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy, Dirk Brouwer Award, Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation, Masursky Award, Prix Guzman, Harold C. Urey Prize, J. Lawrence Smith Medal, Clifford W. Holmes Award, Chambliss Amateur Achievement Award, Carl Sagan Memorial Award, George Ellery Hale Prize, Paul Pellas-Graham Ryder Award, Gerard P. Kuiper Prize, Price Medal, Carl Sagan Medal, Herschel Medal, Meteoritical Society's Service Award, Nier Prize, Franck J. Malina Astronautics Medal, Chapman Medal, Luigi G. Napolitano Award, Orbit Award, Jonathan Eberhart Planetary Sciences Journalism Award, Whipple Award, Allan D. Emil Memorial Award, Leslie C. Peltier Award, Gordon A. McKay Award. Excerpt: Conceived of in 1924 by the Dayton Section of the SAE, the SAE established Wright Brothers Medal in 1927 to recognize individuals who have made notable contributions in the engineering design, dev...
