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NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal

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Country
  
United States

Status
  
Active

Type
  
Medal

Established
  
July 29, 1959

NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal

Eligibility
  
Non-government personnel

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."

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.

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1967

  • Dr. Charles Stark Draper
  • 1969

  • Harry H. Hess
  • T. J. O'Malley
  • Frederick Seitz
  • Charles H. Townes
  • 1971

  • Joseph G. Gavin
  • George E. Stoner
  • 1972

  • Riccardo Giacconi
  • Brian O'Brien
  • Gerald J. Wasserburg
  • 1973

  • 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
  • Richard H. Nelson
  • Frank Press
  • Theodore D. Smith
  • 1974

  • 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

  • Grant L. Hansen
  • Willis M. Hawkins
  • Richard B. Kershner
  • 1976

  • Edward W. Bonnett
  • Antonio Ferri
  • Theodore D. Smith
  • Lyman Spitzer
  • 1977

  • Laurence J. Adams
  • Franklin W. Kolk
  • Walter O. Lowrie
  • Thomas G. Pownall
  • Carl Sagan
  • Francis B. Sayre
  • Ronald Smelt
  • Kurt Waldheim
  • 1978

  • Edward O. Buckbee
  • Gerald J. Wasserburg
  • 1982

  • Harrison H. Schmitt
  • 1983

  • Eugene H. Levy
  • 1984

  • Erik Quistgaard
  • 1988

  • Robert Heinlein
  • 1991

  • John T. Radecki
  • Rodger Doxsey
  • Harlan James Smith
  • Bert R. Bulkin
  • 1992

  • John Bahcall
  • 1993

  • Riccardo Giacconi
  • Gene Roddenberry
  • 1995

  • Dr. Robert L. Golden
  • Bill G Aldridge
  • 1997

  • Norman Ralph Augustine
  • 2001

  • Alain Bensoussan
  • James (Jim) F. Berry
  • 2002

  • Thomas P. Ackerman
  • Viktor D. Blagov
  • Vladimir Nikolaevich Dezhurov
  • Glenn A. Goerke
  • Audrey Milroy
  • R. K. Chetty Pandipati
  • Gerald W. Smith
  • Mikhail Tyurin
  • Yury V. Usachev
  • 2003

  • Daniel J. Jacob
  • Roger J. Bressenden
  • Hugh (Hamp) Wilson
  • Roger Chrostowski
  • Barry Greenberg
  • 2004

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Edward C. “Pete” Aldridge
  • Maria T. Zuber
  • Dr. Laurie Leshin
  • 2005

  • William Sample
  • Richard Covey
  • Dr. Douglas Stanley
  • 2006

  • Daniel J. Heimerdinger, Ph.D.
  • 2007

  • Jim Banke
  • David F. Dinges
  • Paul Lightsey
  • Lynda Weatherman
  • 2009

  • Dr. Carlos T. Mata
  • Brian Rishikof
  • Lester M. Cohen
  • Roger W. Corson
  • 2010

  • Dennis E. Botts
  • Jack Trombka
  • Benjamin M. Herman
  • Jeffrey P. Sutton
  • 2011

  • Gary Dempsey - COLSA
  • Charles Kopicz - ERC, Inc
  • Robert Savoie - GEOCENT
  • 2012

  • Robert Berry
  • Raymond M. Hoff
  • Peter W. Phillips
  • James Sponnick, United Launch Alliance
  • Michael L. Young, United Launch Alliance
  • 2013

    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.

  • Edward C. Stone
  • 2014

    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.

    2015

  • Davy A. Haynes, Jacobs Technologies ESSSA Group, Engineering Directorate
  • 2016

  • Alan Stern
  • Unknown date

  • William H. Webster
  • Berrien Moore III
  • Lori Garver
  • References

    NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal Wikipedia