NASA Distinguished Public Service 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.

NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal
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
NASA Distinguished Public Service Ribbon
Precedence
Next (higher)	Congressional Space Medal of Honor
Equivalent	NASA Distinguished Service Medal
Next (lower)	NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal

Recipients

1967

• Charles Stark Draper^[1]

1969

• Harry H. Hess^[2]
• T. J. O'Malley^[3]
• Frederick Seitz^[4][5]
• Charles H. Townes
• Russell L. Schweickart

1971

• Joseph G. Gavin
• George E. Stoner^[6]

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^[7]
• Richard H. Nelson
• Jeff Dantowitz
• 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^[8]

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^[9]
• Gerald J. Wasserburg

1980

• Clyde W. Tombaugh^[10]

1981

• Victor van Lint

1982

• Harrison H. Schmitt^[11]

1983

• Eugene H. Levy^[12]

1984

• Erik Quistgaard^[13]
• Nichelle Nichols^[14][15]

1988

• Robert Heinlein^[16]
• Carver G. Kennedy^[17]

1991

• John T. Radecki
• Rodger Doxsey
• Harlan James Smith^[18]
• Bert R. Bulkin

1992

• John Bahcall^[19]
• Berrien Moore III^[20]

1993

• Riccardo Giacconi^[21]
• Gene Roddenberry^[22]

1995

• Robert L. Golden^[23][24]
• Bill G Aldridge^[25]

1996

• Lori Garver^[26]

1997

• Norman Ralph Augustine

2001

• Alain Bensoussan
• James (Jim) F. Berry^[27][28]
• Yvonne Brill

2002

• 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

• Daniel J. Jacob
• Roger J. Bressenden
• Hugh (Hamp) Wilson^[31]
• Roger Chrostowski
• Barry Greenberg^[32]
• Ilan Ramon
• Yuri Gidzenko

2004

• Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Edward C. "Pete" Aldridge^[33]
• Maria T. Zuber^[34]
• Laurie Leshin^[35][36]
• Albert Reville
• William H. Webster^[37]

2005

• William Sample^[38][39]
• Richard Covey^[40]
• Douglas Stanley^[41]
• Dennis L. Hartmann^[42]

2006

• Daniel J. Heimerdinger, Ph.D.^[43]
• Bob Bishop, D.S.^[44]
• Bruce H. Wendler^[45]

2007

• Jim Banke^[46]
• David F. Dinges^[47][48]
• Paul Lightsey
• Lynda Weatherman^[46]

2008

• Klaus P. Heiss [de]
• 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

• Carlos T. Mata^[49][50]
• Brian Rishikof^[51]
• Lester M. Cohen^[52]
• Roger W. Corson

2010

• Dennis E. Botts^[53]
• Jack Trombka^[54]
• Benjamin M. Herman^[55]
• Jeffrey P. Sutton^[56]

2011

• Gary Dempsey - COLSA^[57]
• Charles Kopicz - ERC, Inc
• Robert Savoie - GEOCENT

2012

• 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

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 *

• 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.^[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

• Davy A. Haynes, Jacobs Technologies ESSSA Group, Engineering Directorate^[63]

2016

The following individuals were recognized June 28, 2016.

• Thomas A. Glavich
• Stamatios Krimigis
• Stephen E. Kulczycki
• Therrin H. Protze
• Alan Stern^[64]

2017

The following individuals were recognized June 15, 2017.^[65]

• Terry Abel
• Frank Bauer
• Eric De Jong
• Edward Devine
• Michael Dorsch
• Alan Hargens
• Kauser Imtiaz
• Roger Launius
• Edward Nace
• Christopher Russell
• John Salisbury
• John Sterritt
• Forman Williams
• Roberta Wyrick, ERC *

2018

The following individuals were recognized August 2, 2018.^[66]

• Christopher Jones
• John Magisano
• William McClintock
• Michael Melgares
• Frank Morring
• Eugene Parker
• James Paulsen
• Byron Tapley
• Yervant Terzian
• Edward L. Wright

2019

The following individuals were recognized August 28, 2019.^[67]

• Alaudin Bhanji
• Daniel Coulter
• Robert Ergun
• Michael Graybill
• Thomas Howsman
• Miguel Larsen
• Charles Lawrence
• Edward Sikora, ERC
• Robert Sinclair
• Jakob van Zyl

2020

The following individuals were recognized December 22, 2020.^[68]

• Charles Boehl
• Ronald Dantowitz
• George Helou
• Larry Johnson
• Alan Joynt
• Christopher Justice
• Renjith Kumar
• Lon Miller
• Joseph Musick
• Ashot Sargsyan
• B. Thomas Soifer
• Ray Sparks
• Bobby Williams
• A. Thomas Young

Unknown date

See also

• List of NASA awards

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External links

• NASA Medals directory
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration Honor Awards (1969–1978)
• Agency Awards Historical Recipient List