Two NASA employees have won medals for planetary defense based on their work on a space agency mission that altered the orbit of an asteroid.
Brian Key and Scott Bellamy, who served as program manager and mission manager, respectively, for NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, were each presented with the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal on Tuesday during a ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
