ANNOUNCEMENTS AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR GRAVITATIONAL & SPACE RESEARCH NAMES ASTEROID AFTER DR. JOHN KISS Congratulations to Dr. John Kiss (University of North Carolina, Greensboro), who has been awarded the COSPAR International Cooperation Medal for distinguished contributions to space science and work that has contributed significantly to the promotion of international scientific cooperation; he receives this with Dr. F. Javier Medina of Spain. Along with the medal is the Kiss asteroid (#8267)! Dr. Kiss and Dr. Medina have both been active in international spaceflight research for more than two decades during which they studied the growth and development of plants under microgravity in spaceflight. Both served as principal investigators for a joint spaceflight project named Seedling Growth (SG) where Kiss was funded by NASA and Medina by ESA and the Spanish National Research Agency to conduct studies on board the International Space Station. The Awards ceremony took place during the 43rd COSPAR Scientific Assembly in January 2021 in Australia. -From a statement by the American Society for Gravitational & Space Research
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