Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE:ORB) announced that David W. Thompson, its co-founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, has been awarded the 2011 International Von Kármán Wings Award by the Aerospace Historical Society (AHS) and the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories of the California Institute of Technology (GALCIT). The 2011 award was presented to Mr. Thompson for his leadership of Orbital over the past three decades, which has pioneered new classes of rockets and satellites that have helped to make space applications more affordable and accessible to people and enterprises around the world.

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