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Highest award bestowed by the NASA
Award
The NASA Distinguished Service Medal is the highest award that can be bestowed by the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the
United States . The medal may be presented to any member of the
federal government , including both military
astronauts and civilian employees.
The NASA Distinguished Service Medal is awarded to those who display distinguished service, ability, or courage, and have personally made a contribution representing substantial progress to the NASA mission. The contribution must be so extraordinary that other forms of recognition would be inadequate.
Typical presentations of the NASA Distinguished Service Medal included awards to senior NASA administrators, mission control leaders, and astronauts who have completed several successful space flights. Due to the prestige of the award, the decoration is authorized for wear on active uniforms of the
United States military . Another such authorized decoration is the
NASA Space Flight Medal .
Upon the recommendation of NASA, the president may award an even higher honor to astronauts, the
Congressional Space Medal of Honor .
The medal was original awarded by the
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and was inherited by NASA. The first NASA version (type I), featuring the
NASA seal , was issued from 1959 until 1964, when it was replaced by the current type II medal (shown).
James Webb's award, 1 November 1968
Recipients
1959
John W. Crowley, Jr., NASA Director of Aeronautical and Space Research
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1961
1962
1963
1965
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
Charles J. Donlan
Isaac T. Gillam
Charles R. Gunn
William M. Lohse
Charles W. Mathews
John J. Neilon
Leonard Roberts
William R. Schindler
1977
1978
1980
1981
1984
1988
1991
1992
1994
1995
Dr. Charles J. Pellerin
Bill G. Aldridge
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1996
William J. O'Neil
2000
2001
2002
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
[25]
2011
2012
Frank J. Benz
[26]
Byron Butler
Sam V. Digesu
Christopher J. Ferguson
David C. Folta
Michael E. Fossum
Mark E. Kelly
Alan J. Lindenmoyer
David M. Martin
[27]
Ann McNair
Robert R. Meyer
Martin G. Mlynczak
Philip E. Phillips
[27]
Craig L. Purdy
Daniel C. Reda
Joseph Savino
Phillip A. Sabelhaus
Peter J. Serlemitsos
Robert M. Stephens
Michael T. Suffredini
Richard Zurek
2015
Raymond G. Clinton Jr.
Carl Preston Jones
Ellen Ochoa
2016
James O. Arnold
Perry L. Becker
Jeri Buchholz
Ricky W. Butler
Edward R. Generazio
Linda M. Jensen
Jack King
Jennifer C. Kunz
Michael F. O'Brien
William Oegerle
Patrick Scheuermann
Piers J. Sellers
J. William Sikora
Teresa Vanhooser
2017
2018
[29]
Theodore Adams
Gale Allen
[30]
Christine Belcastro
John Charles
Charles Dovale
Philip Eberspeaker
[30]
James Free
[30]
Cornelis Gehrels
Pamela Hanes
Kenneth Human
[30]
Robert Jacobs
Debra Johnson
Lauren Leo
[30]
Robert Lightfoot
[30]
Dawn Lowe
Joel Montalbano
Ellen Ochoa
[30]
Krista Paquin
[30]
Jonathan Pettus
[30]
Dennis Reuter
Lesa Roe
[30]
Michael Sampson
Christopher Singer
[30]
Hanwant Singh
Gregory Williams
[30]
Josef Wonsever
Joseph Zawodny
2019
[31]
Richard Antcliff
Richard Barney
Darren Bedell
Dwayne C. Brown
Thomas Bryan
Layne Carter
Ricky Cissom
Joseph Cuzzupoli
William DeLoach
Daniel Dittman
Edward Fein
Michael Freilich
Michael Good
Tyrell Hawkins
William Hicks
Andrew Hunter
Dorsie Jones
Vicki Kloeris
Joseph Madden
Edward Masuoka
Todd May
William Myers
Jim Reuter
Melvin Scruggs
Robert Scully
Jaiwon Shin
Patrick Simpkins
Steven Sullivan
Eric Thaxton
Michael Van Houten
Brenton Weathered
Terry Wilcutt
See also
References
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"Distinguished Service Medal, NASA, 1961, Alan Shepard" . Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum . Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved March 7, 2021 .
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"Virgil I. Grissom (Lieutenant Colonel, USAF)" (PDF) . NASA. December 1997. Retrieved March 7, 2021 .
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"President John F. Kennedy Pins NASA Distinguished Service Medal on John Glenn" . NASA. August 7, 2017. Retrieved March 7, 2021 .
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"Remarks at the presentation of NASA's Distinguished Service Medal to Dr. Robert R. Gilruth and Colonel John H. Glenn, Jr., 23 February 1962" . John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. August 7, 2017. Retrieved March 7, 2021 .
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"President Kennedy Awards the NASA Distinguished Service Medal to Major Gordon Cooper, 21 May 1963" . JOHN F. KENNEDY PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM .
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"Willis Shapley Dies" . Washington Post . Retrieved July 18, 2019 .
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"Astronaut Bio: Robert L. Crippen (07\2001)" . 11 February 2015.
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"NASA Medals Historical Recipients" (PDF) .
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"Biographical Sketch" (PDF) . NASA. December 1986. Retrieved March 7, 2021 .
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"Robert O. Aller, 76" . Washington Post . June 6, 2006. Retrieved March 7, 2021 .
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"Astronaut Bio: Franklin Story Musgrave (M.D.)" . 11 February 2015.
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"NASA medal to Aldridge" .
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"Chief Of Staff Courtney Stadd Announces Plans To Leave Agency" . NASA Newsroom . May 27, 2003. Retrieved 2 January 2017 .
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James Voss
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"Astronaut Bio: William McCool 5/04" . 11 February 2015.
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"NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Honors Employees at Annual Awards Ceremony" .
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JPL - JPL's New Associate Director Led Successful Mars Exploration
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"Historical Recipient List" (PDF) . NASA. Retrieved 24 April 2021 .
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NASA – Tampa Native Hendriksen Receives NASA Distinguished Service Medal
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"Christopher Scolese Receives the NASA Distinguished Service Medal (200908120001HQ)" . 12 August 2009.
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"NASA Agency Honor Awards 2010" (PDF) .
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"Distinguished Service Medal" (PDF) . Archived from
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"NASA Awards" (PDF) . Spaceport News . 7 September 2012. Retrieved 7 September 2012 .
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"Distinguished Public Service Medal Honorees" . 7 September 2012. Retrieved 23 February 2018 .
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"NASA Agency Honor Awards 2018" (PDF) .
NASA .
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The Agency Honor Award was awarded between April 2, 2017, and May 31, 2018, outside the normal awards cycle
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"2019 Administrator's Agency Honor Awards" (PDF) . August 28, 2019.
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