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The General James E. Hill Lifetime Space Achievement Award is the highest honor bestowed by Space Foundation. It is presented annually in honor of Space Foundation's late, long-time chairman, retired U.S. Air Force General James E. Hill, at a special event held during Space Symposium.
For 60 years, Dan Goldin has been a pioneering technical, programmatic and organizational leader for the intelligence/national security, civil space, commercial space, and advanced technology and computing communities. Starting his career at NASA’s Lewis Research Center in 1962 working on propulsion systems and concepts for interplanetary travel, Goldin would leave NASA to begin an enormously successful 25-year career at TRW’s Space and Technology Group in California, working on pioneering classified national security space programs critical to America’s security during the Cold War. His engineering and programmatic leadership would face its greatest challenge when he was tapped to become the NASA administrator in the spring of 1992.
The General James E. Hill Lifetime Space Achievement Award is the highest honor bestowed by Space Foundation. It is presented annually in honor of Space Foundation's late, long-time chairman, retired U.S. Air Force General James E. Hill, at a special event held during Space Symposium.
For 60 years, Dan Goldin has been a pioneering technical, programmatic and organizational leader for the intelligence/national security, civil space, commercial space, and advanced technology and computing communities. Starting his career at NASA’s Lewis Research Center in 1962 working on propulsion systems and concepts for interplanetary travel, Goldin would leave NASA to begin an enormously successful 25-year career at TRW’s Space and Technology Group in California, working on pioneering classified national security space programs critical to America’s security during the Cold War. His engineering and programmatic leadership would face its greatest challenge when he was tapped to become the NASA administrator in the spring of 1992.
