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James Webb Space Telescope chief scientist Jane Rigby receives highest US civilian award (www.space.com)

submitted 9 months ago by Wilshire to c/space

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Looks like this medal is only awarded to individuals, so yes it would be out of scope. Really it's awarded not only for the JWST, but because she's also done work to advance women and LGBTQ+ people in science. The reading of the citation is excluded from the meeting transcript, but I'm sure you can hear it in a full video.

But they did give it to the senior scientist and not like the mission director or something.

I went to look up who that was, but apparently the position is empty? Seems they're accepting applications: https://aas.org/jobregister/ad/603bb6ef

Edit: actually I think that job is the operational mission director. I was thinking more of the NASA launch mission director. Apparently it's such a complex project there are a bunch of those roles.