4 May 2017

Members of NASA's Dawn mission were honored with awards from the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement (RNASA) Foundation at a banquet in Houston on April 28, 2017.
The Dawn Flight Team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, received a 2017 Team Stellar Award for "outstanding achievement exploring some of the last uncharted worlds in the inner solar system in a unique mission that reveals new insights about the dawn of the solar system."

In addition, Robert Mase, project manager of the Dawn mission, based at JPL, received an individual Stellar Award for "outstanding management of exceptionally successful projects exploring the solar system." Marc Rayman, mission director of Dawn, also based at JPL, additionally won a Stellar Award for "extraordinary and uniquely creative work to explore the solar system and open the frontiers of space to even more ambitious missions to follow."

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Dawn Project Manager Robert Mase (left) and Mission Director Marc Rayman (center) accept a 2017 Team Stellar Award from NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren (right) on behalf of the JPL Dawn Flight Team from the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in Houston on April 28, 2017.