NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal

Recipients

1967

• Charles Stark Draper

1969

• Harry H. Hess
• T. J. O'Malley
• Frederick Seitz
• Charles H. Townes
• Russell L. Schweickart

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
• 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

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

1980

• Clyde W. Tombaugh

1981

• Victor van Lint

1982

• Harrison H. Schmitt

1983

• Eugene H. Levy

1984

• Erik Quistgaard
• Nichelle Nichols

1988

• Robert Heinlein
• Carver G. Kennedy

1991

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

1992

• John Bahcall
• Berrien Moore III

1993

• Riccardo Giacconi
• Gene Roddenberry

1995

• Robert L. Golden
• Bill G Aldridge

1996

• Lori Garver

1997

• Norman Ralph Augustine

2001

• Alain Bensoussan
• James (Jim) F. Berry
• Yvonne Brill

2002

• Thomas P. Ackerman
• Viktor D. Blagov
• Richard D. Blomberg
• 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
• Ilan Ramon
• Yuri Gidzenko

2004

• Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Edward C. "Pete" Aldridge
• Maria T. Zuber
• Laurie Leshin
• Albert Reville
• William H. Webster

2005

• William Sample
• Richard Covey
• Douglas Stanley
• Dennis L. Hartmann

2006

• Daniel J. Heimerdinger
• Bob Bishop, D.S.
• Bruce H. Wendler

2007

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

2008

• 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
• 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
• Dmitry Kondratyev
• James Sponnick, United Launch Alliance
• Michael L. Young, United Launch Alliance

2013

The following individuals were recognized in 2013. Individuals marked with an *** were awarded between 1 April 2012 and 31 March 2013, outside the timing of the normal awards cycle.

• 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 *** were awarded between April 1, 2013 and May 31, 2014, outside the timing of the normal awards cycle.

• 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 *
• Edward C. Stone *
• Mikhail Tyurin *
• Pavel Vinogradov *
• Koichi Wakata *
• Patrick Wiggins
• Fyodor Yurchikhin *}}

2015

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

2016

• Thomas A. Glavich
• Stamatios Krimigis
• Stephen E. Kulczycki
• Therrin H. Protze
• Alan Stern

2017

The following individuals were recognized June 15, 2017.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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}}

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