{"id":156348,"date":"2026-10-28T12:30:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T16:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//?p=156348"},"modified":"2026-10-29T12:46:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T16:46:40","slug":"7-stellar-honorees-earn-ucfs-2026-spaceu-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//7-stellar-honorees-earn-ucfs-2026-spaceu-awards/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//","title":{"rendered":"7 Stellar Honorees Earn UCF/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/u2019s 2026 SpaceU Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Landing humans on the moon was just a dream when UCF was founded in 1963. But we dared to believe /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/u2014 developing the talent and inventing the technologies to make it reality. That same spirit still drives us today.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//em></news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/n<p><em><strong>We are </news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//strong></news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//em><a href=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//space/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/"><strong><em>America/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/u2019s Space University</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//em></news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//strong></news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//a><em><strong>.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//strong></news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//em><em><strong> And we celebrate UCF Space Week to honor our origin as we dare to build what/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/u2019s 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class=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/"text-center pt-4 line-height-1 font-size-sm/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/">Where Global Leaders Unite to Forge the Future of Space</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/n</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//div>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/n/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/t/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/t/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/t</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//div>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/n/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/t/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/t/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/n/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/t/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/t/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/t</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//div>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/n/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/t/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/t/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/n/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/t/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/t/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/t</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//div>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/n/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/t/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/t/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/n</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//div>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/n/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/t/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/t/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/t/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/t/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/t</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//section>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/n/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/t/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/t/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/n<hr>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/n<p>UCF celebrated seven dynamic contributors to Central Florida/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/u2019s robust <a href=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//space/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/">space</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//a> ecosystem with its 2026 SpaceU Awards.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/n<p>America/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/u2019s Space University honored two students, three faculty, a <a href=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//partnerships/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/">Pegasus Partner</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//a>, and a space company leader for advancing space development, discovery, exploration and engagement. The awards were part of <a href=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//spaceweek/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/">the second UCF Space Week</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//a>, which runs Oct. 25-30 and showcases the university&#8217;s impact across the space sector.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/n<p>Tuesday/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/u2019s SpaceU Awards ceremony at the Celeste Hotel drew more than 200 community leaders and supporters from UCF, industry and government. The event also spotlighted the inaugural UCF Space Ideation Challenge, a national competition showcasing practical, forward-looking ideas to strengthen U.S. leadership in space and accelerate the emerging space economy.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Their achievements remind us that exploration is about more than reaching new frontiers /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/u2014 it is about advancing knowledge, creating opportunities and improving lives on Earth and beyond.&#8221; /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/u2014 Alexander N. Cartwright, UCF president</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//p></news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//blockquote>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/n<p>&#8220;Our SpaceU Award recipients embody the ingenuity and determination that have defined UCF from the start. They ask bold questions, take on difficult challenges, and pursue ideas that have the potential to change what we know, what we can do and where we can go,&#8221; said UCF President Alexander N. Cartwright. &#8220;Their achievements remind us that exploration is about more than reaching new frontiers /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/u2014 it is about advancing knowledge, creating opportunities and improving lives on Earth and beyond.&#8221;</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/n<p>UCF originated in 1963 to help supply talent and technology for Central Florida/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/u2019s growing space program. Today, SpaceU has become a vital force for enhancing Florida/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/u2019s vibrant space economy through excellence in research, innovation and workforce development /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/u2014 leading the nation in producing talent for the aerospace and defense industries.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/n<p>Other Space Week events include the inaugural UCF Innovate Day, which highlights how university research translates into real-world applications; <em>The Economist/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/u2019s</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//em> fourth-annual Space Economy Summit; the National Space Society/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/u2019s Space Settlement Summit; and the SpaceU Symposium, featuring student, faculty and staff research. The week also includes a SpaceU Drone Show on Memory Mall and the 10th-annual Space Game against Baylor at Acrisure Bounce House Stadium.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/n<p>Here are the 2026 SpaceU Awardees.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/n<p><noscript><img decoding=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/"async/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/" width=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/"1200/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/" height=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/"800/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/" class=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/"aligncenter size-full wp-image-156396 img-fluid/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/" 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Space Research Award</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//h2>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/n<p><strong>Noah Brockhoff, Junior, College of Engineering and Computer Science</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//strong></news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/n<p>Brockhoff/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/u2019s research is helping to address the critical challenge of minimizing the effects of moon dust on spacecraft and landing sites. 色花堂/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/u2019s Exolith Lab, the <a href=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//degree/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//mechanical-engineering-bsme/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/">mechanical engineering</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//a> major spent 300 hours building a simulated lunar lander to study how lunar dust traveling at terminal velocity could damage spacecraft. NASA is partnering with UCF on the research and plans to use the findings, connecting Brockhoff&#8217;s work directly to the future of space exploration.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/n<p><noscript><img decoding=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/"async/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/" width=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/"1200/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/" height=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/"800/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/" class=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/"img-fluid aligncenter wp-image-156395 size-full/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/" 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Space Innovator Award</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//h2>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/n<p><strong>Keanu Brayman, Senior, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Burnett Honors College</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//strong></news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/n<p>Brayman, a mechanical engineering major, is making contributions to space innovations with commercial applications. As an intern at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, he has worked on trajectory optimization for the Human Landing System, additive manufacturing technology for lunar resource utilization and robotic in-space laser welding /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/u2014 a necessity for assembling large structures on the lunar surface. Brayman is also a researcher in UCF/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/u2019s Astrodynamics, Space and Robotics Laboratory, a <a href=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//4-knights-named-goldwater-scholars-elevating-ucf-to-a-historic-national-milestone/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/">Goldwater Scholar</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//a>, and an <a href=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//meet-ucfs-2025-astronaut-scholars/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/">Astronaut Scholar</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//a>.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/n<p><noscript><img 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education, and aerospace-medicine leadership. He founded and directs SpaceU/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/u2019s Center for Aerospace and Extreme Environments Medicine, leading UCF&#8217;s efforts to promote research, education, clinical care, and operational capabilities to protect human health and performance in space. 色花堂, he established Florida/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/u2019s first academic Division of Aerospace Medicine and spearheaded the development of an aerospace medicine residency, master/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/u2019s degree program, and specialized research and simulation capabilities for future exploration missions.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/n<figure id=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/"attachment_156400/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/" style=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/"max-width: 1200px;/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/" class=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/"figure mx-auto d-block/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/"><noscript><img 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class=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/"figure-caption/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/">Planetary Exploration Research Scientist and UCF physics alum Jared Long-Fox &#8217;26PhD (right) accepts the Lifetime Space Achievement Faculty Award on Pegasus Professor Dan Britt&#8217;s behalf. Britt mentored Long-Fox while he was a student.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//figcaption></news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//figure>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/n<h2>Lifetime Space Achievement Faculty Award</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//h2>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/n<p><strong>Daniel Britt, Pegasus Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Sciences, College of Sciences</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//strong></news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/n<p>Britt&#8217;s trailblazing contributions to planetary science have expanded the world&#8217;s understanding of the solar system. A member of several NASA mission teams, he managed the camera project for Mars Pathfinder and has contributed hardware to Mars missions, extending UCF technology in reaching the stars. He directs UCF/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/u2019s Center for Lunar and Asteroid Surface Science and studies the physical properties of asteroids, comets, the moon and Mars. Since joining UCF in 2003, his honors include six NASA Achievement Awards and an asteroid named 4395 Danbritt.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/n<figure id=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/"attachment_156404/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/" style=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/"max-width: 1200px;/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/" class=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/"figure mx-auto d-block/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/"><noscript><img decoding=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/"async/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/" width=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/"1200/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/" height=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/"800/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/" class=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/"figure-img img-fluid w-100 wp-image-156404 size-full/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/" 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class=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/"figure-caption/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/">Lockheed Martin&#8217;s Vice President of System Prototypes Tahllee Baynard (right) accepts the Industry Partner Impact Award on the organization&#8217;s behalf.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//figcaption></news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//figure>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/n<h2>Industry Partner Impact Award</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//h2>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/n<p><strong>Lockheed Martin</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//strong></news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/n<p>Global industry leader Lockheed Martin is a cornerstone of Florida/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/u2019s space ecosystem and a long-time champion 色花堂. Since 1981, Lockheed Martin/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156348/u2019s College Work Experience Program at UCF has provided paid professional opportunities to more than 10,000 students. Many have gone on to join the company. The partnership also supports mentorship, scholarships and cutting-edge faculty research in robotics, AI, advanced manufacturing and hypersonics. 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