The Allan D. Emil Memorial Award is presented every year at the Congress of the International Astronautical Federation. It has been presented annually, since 1977, for an outstanding contribution in space science, space technology, space medicine, or space law which involved the participation of more than one nation and/or which furthered the possibility of greater international cooperation in astronautics. The award consists of a certificate citation and a stipend donated by the Emil family. Recipients 1977: Charles Stark Draper 1978: Konstantin Bushuyev, Glynn Lunney 1979: 1980: Thomas P. Stafford 1981: Peter Jankowitsch, Leonid I. Sedov 1982: Roger Chevalier 1983: Roy Gibson 1984: Luboš Perek 1985: Hans E.W. Hoffmann 1986: Robert Freitag 1987: Ruedeger Reinhard, Burton Edelson, , Roald Sagdeev, 1988: 1989: Johannes Geiss 1990: Oleg Gazenko, , Karl Klein 1991: Guy Severin, 1992: George Müller, U. Ram Rao 1993: Hubert Curien 1994: 1995: Karl H. Doetsch 1996: Anatoly Grigoriev 1997: James Harford 1998: Alvaro Azcarraga 1999: Edward C. Stone 2000: Marcio Barbosa 2001: Richard Kline 2002: Jean-Claude Husson 2003: Liu Jiyuan 2004: Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan 2005: 2006: 2007: Gerhard Haerendel 2008: Conrad Lautenbacher 2009: Wei Sun 2010: 2011: Kuniaki Shiraki 2012: 2013: Ma Xingrui 2014: K. Radhakrishnan 2015: Virendra Jha 2016: Charles Elachi 2017: Lei Fanpei 2018: Xia Guohong 2019: Joan Vernikos 2020: Kailasavadivoo Sivan See also List of space technology awards External links Allan D. Emil Memorial Award | IAF Awards established in 1977 Space-related awards