IAF Excellence In Industry Award Ceremony and Fireside Chat

Tuesday 22 October 08:00 – 08:30
Location: Grand Ballroom A,B

IAF Excellence in Industry Award Ceremony and Fireside Chat with Jeff Bezos

The IAF Excellence in Industry Award recognizes an industry organization for outstanding and sustainable advancements in space, showing the merits of leadership in developing and executing landmark commercial and civil space missions and for being a role model for cooperation in the global space industry workforce. For its first awardee, the IAF has selected Blue Origin for its significant and sustainable contribution towards enabling an enduring human presence in space through its New Shepard launch system and BE-3 liquid hydrogen rocket engine. Designed for human spaceflight and operational reusability, New Shepard has made 11 historic flights to space. These missions have long-term benefits destined to ignite a new era of commercial human access to space at a dramatically lower cost and with increased reliability.

To receive the award on behalf of Blue Origin, its founder Jeff Bezos, will take part in a fireside chat with IAF Incoming President, Pascale Ehrenfreund.