Starship Mission Team Wins 2025 Space Achievement Award
Space Foundation Recognizes SpaceX's Efforts
Space Foundation has selected SpaceX as the recipient of the 2025 Space Achievement Award for its Starship program.
“Starship is an engineering marvel, and SpaceX stands out for pushing boundaries and learning from every challenge."
Heather Pringle, Space Foundation
Starship, the most powerful launch vehicle ever built, is designed for full and rapid reuse on missions to the Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars and beyond. With its fully reusable architecture, Starship will enable cost-effective, high-capacity payload delivery and human spaceflight for future deep-space missions. The spacecraft’s successful flight tests mark critical progress toward advancing interplanetary transportation and achieving long-term space sustainability.
“Building, launching and landing the world’s most powerful rocket is an incredible feat,” said Space Foundation CEO Heather Pringle. “Starship is an engineering marvel, and SpaceX stands out for pushing boundaries and learning from every challenge. They have captured global attention and inspired a new generation of explorers and innovators.”
“SpaceX was founded with a clear goal: to make life multiplanetary,” said Jessica Jensen, SpaceX vice president of customer operations and integration. “Starship is the culmination of every advance we’ve made in bringing reusability to rocketry and will fundamentally change humanity’s ability to explore the vast expanse of space.”
Established in 1995 and presented annually at Space Symposium, Space Foundation’s Space Achievement Award recognizes individuals or organizations that have demonstrated significant contributions, breakthrough space technology, or program or product success representing critical milestones in the evolution of space exploration and development.
The award will be presented Wednesday, April 9, at the Space Technology Hall of Fame and Awards Luncheon during the 40th annual Space Symposium, held at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs.