Dr. Charles Elachi was awarded the 2020 Michael Collins Trophy for Lifetime Achievement, the National Air and Space Museum's highest honor. Elachi is honored for his distinguished career in the fields of remote sensing, planetary science and spaceflight-program management. After pioneering techniques in radar remote sensing for surface, ocean and atmospheric phenomena, he executed these techniques in leadership roles in various mission as director for space and Earth sciences for almost 20 years at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), and the director of JPL for 15.