When Chris Lewicki was honored earlier this spring, it was for his work on Mars. The flight director of the NASA-JPL Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Flight Director Chris Lewicki accepted on behalf of the entire MER team the first Exploration Award presented by the Earth and Space Foundation at a star-studded ceremony in Los Angeles April 12, 2004. The award was commemorating the MER team’s outstanding work on the surface of the Red Planet earlier this year.