On June 10, 2010, Vista Photonics was selected as one of three Business Excellence Award winners. The award is sponsored by
Century Bank and presented at the annual Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce Awards event. Winners are chosen according to company
size and excellence in four areas: business growth, significant accomplishments during the year, excellence in customer service and
unique or visionary business practices.
The hard work of our staff over the last eight years was rewarded when NASA announced during the press conference televised on
NASA TV on May 22, 2013 that Vista Photonics had been selected to design and build a multi-gas analyzer that was sent to the Internation
Space Station via the Soyuz on November 6, 2013. To read our press release, click here. The analyzer was turned on February 3,
2014 and is functioning perfectly! NASA recently posted an article about the device on their website. The McDuffie
Progress, hometown newspaper for the company owners, also did an article about the project.
Vista Photonics was selected to be on the New Mexico Private 100 list of top privately owned business in New Mexico for the second
year in a row on November 6, 2013.