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Space Topics: 25th Anniversary Gala Awards Dinner

Organizing Committee

BUZZ ALDRIN
Planetary Society Advisor &
former NASA Astronaut

JACQUES BLAMONT
Planetary Society Advisor &
Chief Scientist, Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales

ROGER BONNET
Former Director, Space Science Program, European Space Agency

SIR ARTHUR C. CLARKE
Planetary Society Advisor &
Author

CHARLES ELACHI
Director, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory &
Vice President, California Institute of Technology

GARRY HUNT
International Business Advisor

LOUIS M. KWONG
Vice Chairman, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harbor/UCLA Medical Center

DAVID LEVY
Astronomer, Jarnac Observatory, Inc.

GORDON MOORE,
Chairman Emeritus, Intel Corporation

G. MADAVAN NAIR
Chairman, Indian Space Research Organization, Department of Space, India

ROBERT PICARDO
Planetary Society Advisor
& Actor

SALLY RIDE
President & CEO, Sally Ride Science &
Former NASA Astronaut

DAVA SOBEL
Author

EDWARD STONE
David Morrisroe Professor of Physics and Vice Provost for Special Projects, California Institute of Technology
Former Director of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

HENRY TANNER
Former Planetary Society Board Member