The Eugene M. Emme Award is an
award given annually to a person or persons selected by a panel of reviewers from the
American Astronautical Society History Committee to recognize "the truly outstanding book published each year serving public understanding about the positive impact of
astronautics upon society." The award is in honor of
Eugene M. Emme,
NASA's first historian.
2016 (Awarded September 2017) - How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight (Penguin Press) by Julian Guthrie [2][3]
2015 - German Rocketeers in the Heart of Dixie – Making Sense of the Nazi Past during the Civil Rights Era (Yale University Press) by Monique Laney
2014 - Mars Up Close: Inside the Curiosity Mission (National Geographic) by Marc Kaufman
2013 - Dreams of Other Worlds: The Amazing Story of Unmanned Space Exploration (Princeton University Press) by Chris Impey and Holly Henry
2012
The Visioneers: How A Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future (Princeton University Press) by W. Patrick McCray
Destined for Space: Our Story of Exploration (Smithsonian Books and Capstone) by Don Nardo (Children's Category)
Spacesuit: A History of Fact and Fiction (Casemate Publishers) by Brett Goodin (Young Adult Category)
2011
Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo (The MIT Press) by Nicholas de Monchaux
The Scientists Behind Space (Heinemann Raintree, an imprint of Capstone) by Eve Hartman (Children's Category)
Man on the Moon: How a Photograph Made Anything Seem Possible (Compass Point, an imprint of Capstone) by Pamela Dell (Young Adults Category)
2010
John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon (Palgrave Macmillan) by John M. Logsdon
The Red Rockets' Glare: Spaceflight and the Soviet Imagination, 1857-1957 (Cambridge University Press) by
Asif A. Siddiqi
Eight Great Planets! (Picture Window Books) by Laura Purdie Salas (Children’s Category)
This is Rocket Science: True Stories of the Risk-taking Scientists who Figure Out Ways to Explore Beyond Earth (National Geographic Children's Books) by Gloria Skurzynski (Young Adult Category)
2009
Ambassadors from Earth: Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft (University of Nebraska Press) by Jay Gallentine
If I Were an Astronaut (Picture Window Books) by Eric Braun (Children’s Category)
Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? (Abrams ComicArts) by Brian Fies (Young Adult Category)
2008 – Digital Apollo: Human and Machines in Spaceflight - David A. Mindell
2007 – Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War -
Michael J. Neufeld
2006 - Into the Black: JPL and the American Space Program, 1976-2004 - Peter W. Westwick
2006 - Honorable Mention - Testing the Limits - Aviation Medicine and the Origins of Manned Space Flight - Maura Mackowski