NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Northrop Grumman Chair, CEO, and President Kathy Warden accept the National Aeronautic Association (NAA) 2022 Robert J. Collier Trophy on June 15. The NAA awarded the Collier Trophy to NASA and the James Webb Space Telescope industry team, led by Northrop Grumman, for revolutionizing the field of astrophysics with Webb’s successful design and performance.
The award was presented at the annual NAA Gala in Arlington, Virginia.
“NASA’s sights are set on the unknown,” Nelson said. “From the beginning, our call has been to explore the universe and our place within it. We’ve never had a stronger tool to make that clarion call possible.”
Webb, an international mission led by NASA with its partners ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency), is the world’s premier space science observatory. Its design pushed the boundaries of space telescope capabilities to solve mysteries in our solar system, look beyond to distant worlds around other stars, and probe the mysterious structures and origins of our universe and our place in it.
For more information about the Webb mission and the 2022 Collier Trophy, visit:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/nasa-webb-telescope-industry-team-awarded-collier-trophy