The Howard Hughes Award is given for outstanding improvement in fundamental vertical flight technology brought to fruition. The 2022 winner was the Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Team, represented by David Buecher of Lockheed Martin Space, Dr. Brad Clevenger of SolAero, Dr. Anubhav Datta of the University of Maryland, Johnny Lam of NASA JPL, Ben Pipenberg of AeroVironment, Christopher Pruetting of Qualcomm Technologies, Chris Van Buiten of Sikorsky, and Larry Young of NASA. They are flanked by Mike Hirschberg, VFS Executive Director (left) and Tomasz Krysinski, VFS President of the Board and Airbus VP Research & Technology. (VFS photo by Warren Liebmann. CC-BY-SA 4.0)
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