Culture and Art (nagroda literacka Ministra Kultury i Sztuki) and honorary member of Science Fiction Writers of America 1976 – State Prize 1st Level in the area of literature (Nagroda Państwowa I stopnia w dziedzinie literatury) 1979 – Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for his novel Katar. 1986 – Austrian State Prize for European Literature for year 1985 1991 – Austrian literary 1996 – recipient of the Order of the White Eagle 2005 – Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis (on the list of the first recipients of the newly introduced medal) Recognition and remembrance 1972 – member of commission "Poland 2000" of the Polish Academy of Sciences 1979 – a minor planet, 3836 Lem, discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh is named after him. 1981 – Doctor honoris causa honorary degree from the Wrocław University of Technology 1986 – the whole issue (#40 = Volume 13, Part 3) of Science Fiction Studies was dedicated to Stanislaw Lem 1994 – member of the Polish Academy of Learning 1997 – honorary citizen of Kraków 1998 – Doctor honoris causa: University of Opole, Lviv University, Jagiellonian University 2003 – Doctor honoris causa of the University of Bielefeld 2007 – A street in Kraków is to be named in his honour. 2009 – A street in Wieliczka was named in his honour 2011 – An interactive Google logo inspired by The Cyberiad was created and published in his honor for the 60th anniversary of his first published book: The Astronauts. 2013 – two planetoids were named after Lem's literary characters: 343000 Ijontichy, after Ijon Tichy 343444 Halluzinelle, after Tichy's holographic companion Halluzinelle from German TV series Ijon Tichy: Space Pilot Lem (satellite), a Polish optical astronomy satellite launched in 2013 as part of the Bright-star Target Explorer (BRITE) programme 2015: Pirx (crater), a90 km (55.9 miles) wide impact crater on Pluto's natural satellite Charon, discovered in 2015 by the American New Horizons probe 2019 – the star Solaris and its planet Pirx, after the novel Solaris and Tales of Pirx the Pilot In December 2020 Polish Parliament declared year of 2021 to be the Year of Stanisław Lem. The Museum of City Engineering, Kraków, has the Stanislaw Lem Experience Garden, an outdoor area with over 70 interactive locations where children can carry out various physical experiments in acoustics, mechanics, hydrostatics and optics. Since 2011 the Garden has been organizing out