NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal
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NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal | |
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Type | Medal |
Awarded for | "distinguished accomplishments [that] contributed substantially to the NASA mission. The contribution must be so extraordinary that other forms of recognition would be inadequate." |
Country | United States |
Presented by | the National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
Eligibility | Non-government personnel |
Status | Active |
Established | July 29, 1959 |
Precedence | |
Next (higher) | Congressional Space Medal of Honor |
Equivalent | NASA Distinguished Service Medal |
Next (lower) | NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal |
The NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal is an award similar to the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, but awarded to non-government personnel. This is the highest honor NASA awards to anyone who was not a government employee when the service was performed.
Recipients
[edit]1967
[edit]1969
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1971
[edit]1972
[edit]1973
[edit]- Paul B. Blasingame
- Joseph F. Clayton
- Leo Goldberg
- Clinton H. Grace
- Robert E. Greer
- George W. Jeffs
- Thomas J. Kelly
- H. Douglas Lowrey
- Joseph P. McNamara
- James A. Miller[7]
- Richard H. Nelson
- Jeff Dantowitz
- Frank Press
- Theodore D. Smith
1974
[edit]- Ben G. Bromberg
- Jack M. Campbell
- Edwin G. Czarnecki
- Harry Dornbrand
- Jesse L. Greenstein
- Bruce C. Murray
- T. J. O'Malley
- William G. Purdy
1975
[edit]1976
[edit]1977
[edit]- Laurence J. Adams
- Franklin W. Kolk
- Walter O. Lowrie
- Thomas G. Pownall
- Carl Sagan
- Francis B. Sayre
- Ronald Smelt
- Kurt Waldheim
1978
[edit]1980
[edit]1981
[edit]1982
[edit]1983
[edit]1984
[edit]1988
[edit]1991
[edit]- John T. Radecki
- Rodger Doxsey
- Harlan James Smith[18]
- Bert R. Bulkin
1992
[edit]1993
[edit]1995
[edit]1996
[edit]1997
[edit]2001
[edit]2002
[edit]- Thomas P. Ackerman
- Viktor D. Blagov
- Richard D. Blomberg
- Vladimir Nikolaevich Dezhurov
- Glenn A. Goerke
- Audrey Milroy
- R. K. Chetty Pandipati[29][30]
- Gerald W. Smith
- Mikhail Tyurin
- Yury V. Usachev
2003
[edit]- Daniel J. Jacob
- Roger J. Bressenden
- Hugh (Hamp) Wilson[31]
- Roger Chrostowski
- Barry Greenberg[32]
- Ilan Ramon
- Yuri Gidzenko
2004
[edit]- Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Edward C. "Pete" Aldridge[33]
- Maria T. Zuber[34]
- Laurie Leshin[35][36]
- Albert Reville
- William H. Webster[37]
2005
[edit]2006
[edit]2007
[edit]2008
[edit]- Klaus P. Heiss
- James R. Bathurst
- James J. Cawby
- George Hartig
- Mark G. Jager
- Linn Leblanc
- Michael J. Massie
- Robert J. Puckett
- Ted Robinson
- Harold R. Ross
- Marcus Shaw
- Carl Weimer, Ph.D.
2009
[edit]2010
[edit]2011
[edit]2012
[edit]- Robert Berry[58]
- Raymond M. Hoff[58]
- Peter W. Phillips[58]
- Dmitry Kondratyev[58]
- James Sponnick,[58] United Launch Alliance
- Michael L. Young, United Launch Alliance[58][59]
2013
[edit]The following individuals were recognized in 2013. Individuals marked with an * was awarded between 1 April 2012 and 31 March 2013, outside the timing of the normal awards cycle.[60]
- George Charles Adams
- Deborah Barnhart
- Angioletta Coradini *
- Guy Cordier
- Gary L. Enochs
- Holland Ford
- Johnny L. Golden
- Akihiko Hoshide *
- Christopher J. Keller
- Oleg Kononenko *
- André Kuipers *
- Yuri Malenchenko *
- Thomas B. McCord
- Oleg V. Novitskiy *
- Gennady Padalka *
- Sergei Revin *
- Alan K. Ruter
- Theodore L. Shaffner
- Gwynne Shotwell
- Evgeny L. Tarelkin *
2014
[edit]The following individuals were recognized in 2014. Individuals marked with an * was awarded between April 1, 2013 and May 31, 2014, outside the timing of the normal awards cycle.[61]
- James A. Coakley, Jr.
- John Gregory
- Chris A. Hadfield *
- Thomas Hancock
- Bruce M. Jakosky
- Hans J. Koenigsmann
- Oleg Kotov *
- Alexander Misurkin *
- Luca S. Parmitano *
- Mason Peck *
- Thomas Pierson *
- Matthew N. Ramsey
- Roman Romanenko *
- Sergey Ryazanskiy *
- William Shatner *[62]
- Edward C. Stone *
- Mikhail Tyurin *
- Pavel Vinogradov *
- Koichi Wakata *
- Patrick Wiggins
- Fyodor Yurchikhin *
2015
[edit]- Davy A. Haynes, Jacobs Technologies ESSSA Group, Engineering Directorate[63]
2016
[edit]The following individuals were recognized June 28, 2016.
2017
[edit]The following individuals were recognized June 15, 2017.[65]
2018
[edit]The following individuals were recognized August 2, 2018.[66]
2019
[edit]The following individuals were recognized August 28, 2019.[67]
2020
[edit]The following individuals were recognized December 22, 2020.[68]
Unknown date
[edit]See also
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