LONDON — The winners of the first ever Global Space Awards were revealed in a glamorous ceremony hosted by physicist and author Brian Greene on Dec. 5, during which the family of Apollo and Gemini astronaut James Lovell accepted an award honoring the late explorer's legacy.
"It's incredibly exciting, it's about time that there's an awards focussed on the next and final frontier," Greene told Space.com as the event got underway. "When the public is behind something, ultimately governments recognize that they need to fund it and so if people are excited about life in the universe, or the beginning of time, or the beginning of space, this is vital for the funding of basic research that fuels everything."
