William Randolph Lovelace II Award

The William Randolph Lovelace II Award recognizes outstanding contributions to space science and technology.

As a young flight surgeon, Lovelace performed high altitude parachute experiments and received the Distinguished Flying Cross for an experimental parachute decent from over 40,000 feet in 1943. He was later first assistant to Charles Mayo of the Mayo Clinic and later Chief of the Aero-Medical Laboratory at Wright Field. He was chairman of the Board of Governors of the Lovelace Clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and promoted the development of aerospace medical technology through
that clinic. He was Director of Space Medicine for NASA and was instrumental in establishing criteria for the selection of astronauts. His untimely death, at the age of 58, came in 1965 in the crash of a private plane.

2009 – Buzz Aldrin
2008 – No Award Given
2007 – John R. Casani
2006 – Wesley T. Huntress, Jr.
2005 – Thomas R. Gavin
2004 – John Naugle
2003 – John E. Draim
2002 – Allen Katz
2001 – Thomas J. Kelly
2000 – Neil Gehrels and Anthony Spear
1999 – Douglas C. Stone
1998 – Richard J. Spehalski
1997 – Yuri Koptev
1996 – Ashok R. Deshmukh
1995 – Peggy A. Whitson
1994 – Richard L. Kline
1993 – Arnauld E. Nicogossian
1992 – David S. Johnson
1990 – T. Wendell Butler
1989 – Carolyn L. Huntoon
1988 – Peter T. Lyman
1987 – Robert R. Lovell
1986 – Frank B. McDonald
1985 – Shelby G. Tilford
1984 – Noel W. Hinners
1983 – Glynn S. Lunney
1982 – Warren D. Nichols
1981 – Aaron Cohen
1980 – Charles L. Feltz
1979 – Nancy G. Roman
1978 – Fred A. Speer
1977 – Sigurd Sjoberg
1976 – Christopher C. Kraft, Jr.
1975 – Charles Donlan
1974 – Kenneth S. Kleinknecht
1973 – Homer E. Newell
1972 – Herbert Friedman
1971 – Maxime Faget
1970 – Charles Stark Draper
1969 – No Award Given
1968 – Arthur L. G. Rudolph
1967 – Robert C. Truax
1966 – Robert Morris Page
1965 – Jeanette Ridlon Piccard