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NSS Member Voting Now Open For The 2014 Heinlein Award
Musk, Bigelow, Garver Among Nominees
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Balloting has opened for The National Space Society’s Robert A. Heinlein Memorial Award for 2014. The Award honors those individuals who have made significant, lifetime contributions to the creation of a free, spacefaring civilization.
Only living individuals, or those who have been deceased less than three years prior to the starting date of the International Space Development Conference (ISDC) in May of 2014, are eligible for this award. The Previous award winners in chronological order are: Dr. Gerard K. O’Neill, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Dr. Wernher von Braun, Gene Roddenberry, Dr. Robert H. Goddard, Dr. Buzz Aldrin, Dr. Carl Sagan, Neil Armstrong, Robert Zubrin, Capt. James Lovell, Gen. Chuck Yeager, Burt Rutan, Dr. Peter Diamandis and Stephen Hawking. These individuals are not eligible for this award again.
Those individuals whose actions have involved personal, social, or financial risk are particularly meritorious. Do not exclude anyone from consideration if their contribution is in only one area.
The ballot contains a list of the top 28 candidates eligible in 2014. You can vote for any eligible candidate who is not on the list by writing in a candidate’s name. This may get that person on the top candidates list for 2015.
Only votes of current NSS members in good standing will count towards the outcome of this vote. If you are not a current member please visit this link to renew your membership first. Please allow 7 days for your membership to be validated.
Click here to vote or go to http://www.nss.org/heinlein-ballot.php
NOTE: Online voting will end December 31, 2013 at midnight Hawaiian time.
The Award is in memory of author Robert A. Heinlein for his many contributions to the pro-space movement. In addition to serving as a Director of the L5 Society for about a decade, Heinlein was one of the most popular and controversial writers of “hard” science fiction – holding a high standard for the plausibility according to modern science and raising the overall quality of the genre through the example of his works. He also painlessly educated a whole generation about spaceflight by teaching through entertainment. The 15th Heinlein award will be presented to the winner at the National Space Society’s 33rd ISDC to be held in Los Angeles next May.
Source: http://moonandback.com/2013/11/01/nss-member-voting-now-open-for-the-2014-heinlein-award/
