Honors and Awards
Tarter's work in astrobiology and her success as a female scientist have garnered achievement awards from several scientific organizations.
- Awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by Women in Aerospace in 1989.
- Received two public service medals from NASA.
- Was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2002 and a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences in 2003.
- Received the Adler Planetarium Women in Space Science Award in 2003.
- Was awarded the Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology in 2001.
- Was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine in 2004.
- Received Wonderfest's Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization in 2005.
- Recipient of a 2009 TED Prize.
- Elected a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.
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