R. Aileen Yingst

Dr. Yingst has received several group awards for her work on various missions, including the NASA Group Achievement Award for the MER 3rd and 4th, and 5th Extended Missions (2008, 2014), the International Space Ops Award for Outstanding Achievement as part of the MER Operations Team (2010) and the AIAA Haley Space Flight Award as part of the MER Development and Operations Team (2012). She has also received the NASA Group Achievement Award as part of the Mars Science Laboratory MMM Camera Team (2013), and the Prime Mission Science and Operations Team (2015). As part of the Mars Science Laboratory Science Team, she received the National Space Club Distinguished Science Award (2015). She received the NASA Distinguished Service Award as part of the Dawn Science Team (2014), and the NASA Group Achievement Award as part of the Desert RATS Team (2011). In 2015, Dr. Yingst was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. She was nominated to full membership in the Sigma Xi Honor Society in 1998. She received a NASA Space Grant Fellowship as a graduate student in 1996, and a General Electric Fellowship in 1991.