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 | |
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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 | 
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
    
1969
    
1971
    
- Joseph G. Gavin
 - George E. Stoner[3]
 
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[4]
 - 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[5]
 
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[6]
 - Gerald J. Wasserburg
 
1980
    
1981
    
- Victor van Lint
 
1983
    
- Eugene H. Levy
 
1988
    
- Robert Heinlein[12]
 - Carver G. Kennedy[13]
 
1991
    
- John T. Radecki
 - Rodger Doxsey
 - Harlan James Smith[14]
 - Bert R. Bulkin
 
1996
    
2001
    
- Alain Bensoussan
 - James (Jim) F. Berry[23][24]
 - Yvonne Brill
 
2002
    
- Thomas P. Ackerman
 - Viktor D. Blagov
 - Richard D. Blomberg
 - Vladimir Nikolaevich Dezhurov
 - Glenn A. Goerke
 - Audrey Milroy
 - R. K. Chetty Pandipati[25][26]
 - Gerald W. Smith
 - Mikhail Tyurin
 - Yury V. Usachev
 
2003
    
- Daniel J. Jacob
 - Roger J. Bressenden
 - Hugh (Hamp) Wilson[27]
 - Roger Chrostowski
 - Barry Greenberg[28]
 - Ilan Ramon
 - Yuri Gidzenko
 
2004
    
2007
    
2008
- Dr. 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.
 
2010
    
- Dennis E. Botts[49]
 - Jack Trombka[50]
 - Benjamin M. Herman[51]
 - Jeffrey P. Sutton[52]
 
2011
    
- Gary Dempsey - COLSA[53]
 - Charles Kopicz - ERC, Inc
 - Robert Savoie - GEOCENT
 
2012
    
- Robert Berry[54]
 - Raymond M. Hoff[54]
 - Peter W. Phillips[54]
 - Dmitry Kondratyev[54]
 - James Sponnick,[54] United Launch Alliance
 - Michael L. Young, United Launch Alliance[54][55]
 
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.[56]
- 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
    
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.[57]
- 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 *[58]
 - Edward C. Stone *
 - Mikhail Tyurin *
 - Pavel Vinogradov *
 - Koichi Wakata *
 - Patrick Wiggins
 - Fyodor Yurchikhin *
 
2016
    
The following individuals were recognized June 28, 2016.
- Thomas A. Glavich
 - Stamatios Krimigis
 - Stephen E. Kulczycki
 - Therrin H. Protze
 - Alan Stern[60]
 
2017
    
The following individuals were recognized June 15, 2017.[61]
- 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.[62]
- 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.[63]
- Alaudin Bhanji
 - Daniel Coulter
 - Robert Ergun
 - Michael Graybill
 - Thomas Howsman
 - Miguel Larsen
 - Charles Lawrence
 - Edward Sikora, ERC
 - Robert Sinclair
 - Jakob van Zyl
 
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