Welcome to the 2024 Astro Awards! This article will provide you all you need to know about the event for in-person attendance as well as how to watch online.
Astro Awards Live
January 13-14, 2024
Downtown Austin TX
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The Everyday Astronaut team is excited to host our first in-person event and awards show in Austin, TX on January 13-14, 2024! Our mission: to honor and celebrate the revolutionary humans behind some of the hardware and missions we saw in the last year by inviting them to accept an award IN REAL LIFE! We’re merging the space industry with everyday people for the ultimate party and celebration of human achievement.
Schedule
Saturday January 13, 2024, 8 – 11 PM
Pre-Show Party with Everyday Astronaut
Performing live at Vulcan Gas Company in downtown Austin, TX, Tim Dodd will play his Everyday Astronaut music with a full band — Salt Fox (also headlining the show!), and also be joined by special guest Scott Manley! This will be a fun night of music, entertainment, and mingling.
Sunday January 14, 2024, 3 – 5 PM
Astro Awards Live
Live at the Paramount Theater in downtown Austin, TX. Tim Dodd, the Everyday Astronaut, will present the Astro awards to the revolutionary leaders and missions of the space industry.
Anyone who purchases an Orbital Access ticket will gain access to some additional meet-and-greet opportunities throughout the weekend as well!

The Origin Of The Astro Awards
The 2024 Astro Awards will be the 7th annual awards show, celebrating the achievements in space during the 2023 calendar year. Since 2017, Tim Dodd, the Everyday Astronaut, has been uniquely producing YouTube videos to honor and bring recognition to the inspiring and revolutionary spaceflight achievements from the previous year. For many years, Tim has dreamed about an in-person Astro Award show… finally his dream will come true!
The Everyday Astronaut team has been working hard in 2023 to plan and organize a top tier exciting and entertaining event. Join us for the inaugural in person Astro Awards in Austin, Texas!
Will There Be A Livestream?
Yes! Though we will not livestream the entire series of events over the weekend, we will stream the two-hour award ceremony on January 14 from 3 – 5pm CT (21:00 – 23:00 UTC) from our Everyday Astronaut YouTube channel and on “X” as well. We hope you can join us one way or another!
What’s The Dress-Code?
Business casual/casual!
Astro Awards Nominees and Special Guests
We are so excited to honor our nominees –– some of the many humans behind 2023’s most exciting space missions! Those who we invite as nominees will be presented a physical award, given an opportunity to speak on behalf of their team, and we’ll be wining and dining them as well to say thank you.
Scott Manley – Although Scott Manley isn’t representing a mission, he is on a mission to get the party started! That’s right! He is going back to his roots and DJ’ing the pre-show party for our first in-person Astro Awards!
René Laureijs – Euclid Telescope Project Scientist René Laureijs will be attending the Astro Awards 2024!! Euclid is a 600 megapixel wide telescope that launched in July on a SpaceX Falcon 9! Learn more about Euclid here – https://esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid…
Ben Weiss – Psyche Deputy Principal Investigator, Ben Weiss, will be attending Astro Awards 2024 as a nominee for the incredible Psyche Mission!
Jane McNicoll - We are so excited to have Rocket Lab TROPICS Mission Manager, Jane McNicoll join us!
Christopher Huie – Known to his teammates as “Chuie”, is an Aerospace Engineer and Senior Manager on Virgin Galactic’s Flight Sciences Engineering team. In the six years he has been with the company leading the External Loads Engineering discipline, Chuie’s thoughtful approach to both his work and to those he works with has set him apart as a leader at Galactic.
More announcements coming soon from SpaceX, NASA, Relativity, Firefly, Virgin Galactic, Arianespace, Stoke Space, Space Force, and more!
Want To Partner With Us?
We’re looking to partner up with aligned organizations to make this event as awesome as possible! If you’re interested in working together to enhance the experience, please reach out to us to discuss partnership opportunities!