Biography - Aviation-Related Awards
Apollo Astronauts Get FAI Awards
From JSC Press Release 73-112, 8-31-73
Astronauts Eugene A. Cernan and John W. Young
have received the two highest awards of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale.
The Apollo 16 crew also was honored.
The FAI Gold Space Medal for 1972 was presented to
Cernan for "outstanding performance as commander of Apollo 17." It is the
Federation's highest award for space flight.
Young, Apollo 16 commander, received the Yuri Gagarin
Gold Medal for 1972, the second highest award. In addition, he represented
fellow crewmen Charles M. Duke, Jr., and Thomas K. Mattingly II, in accepting
the V. M. Komarov Diploma, the only FAI space award which recognizes achievement
by a crew rather than an individual.
The FAI is a worldwide federation dedicated to progress
in aviation and space flight and is the official keeper of records in those
fields. The awards were announced September 3 at FAI's 66th annual general
conference in Dublin, Ireland.
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