Two National Aeronautics and Space Administration employees won a top federal award on Oct. 17 for an asteroid deflection mission, according to NASA.
Brian Key and Scott Bellamy received the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal on behalf of their mission team during a ceremony at the John. F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
“That mission could not have gone more flawlessly, agreed. Launched in November 2021, the DART spacecraft traveled to more than 6.8 million miles from Earth with one simple goal: to intentionally impact into Dimorphos, a 492-foot-diameter asteroid, at roughly 14,000 miles per hour, thus altering its orbit around its much larger parent asteroid, Didymos.
He also manages the agency’s $2 billion portfolio that includes several programs that are learning more about the planets, moons, asteroids and more.
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