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NASA Distinguished Service Medal

January 12, 2023

This article is about NASA-awarded Distinguished Service Medal. For other U.S. versions, see Distinguished Service Medal (disambiguation).

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.

NASA Distinguished Service Medal
NASA Distinguished Service Medal
TypeMedal
Awarded for"distinguished service, ability, or courage, [that] has...made a contribution representing substantial progress to aeronautical or space exploration in the interests of the United States"
CountryUnited States
Presented bythe National Aeronautics and Space Administration
EligibilityFederal government employees
StatusActive
EstablishedJuly 29, 1959
First awarded1959
NASA Distinguished Service Ribbon
Precedence
Next (higher)Congressional Space Medal of Honor
EquivalentDistinguished Public Service Medal
Next (lower)Outstanding Leadership Medal

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[1]

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

  • William H. Bayley

1981

1984

1988

1991

1992

1994

  • Joseph H Rothenberg

1995

  • Dr. Charles J. Pellerin
  • Bill G. Aldridge[15]

1996

  • Gerald M. Smith

2000

  • Joseph H Rothenberg

2001

2002

2004

2005

2006

2007

  • Douglas Hendriksen[22]

2008

2009

2010

[24]

2011

2012

  • Frank J. Benz[25]
  • Byron Butler
  • Sam V. Digesu
  • Christopher J. Ferguson
  • David C. Folta
  • Michael E. Fossum
  • Mark E. Kelly
  • Alan J. Lindenmoyer
  • David M. Martin[26]
  • Ann McNair
  • Robert R. Meyer
  • Martin G. Mlynczak
  • Philip E. Phillips[26]
  • 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

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

[28]

  • Theodore Adams
  • Gale Allen[29]
  • Christine Belcastro
  • John Charles
  • Charles Dovale
  • Philip Eberspeaker[29]
  • James Free[29]
  • Cornelis Gehrels
  • Pamela Hanes
  • Kenneth Human[29]
  • Robert Jacobs
  • Debra Johnson
  • Lauren Leo[29]
  • Robert Lightfoot[29]
  • Dawn Lowe
  • Joel Montalbano
  • Ellen Ochoa[29]
  • Krista Paquin[29]
  • Jonathan Pettus[29]
  • Dennis Reuter
  • Lesa Roe[29]
  • Michael Sampson
  • Christopher Singer[29]
  • Hanwant Singh
  • Gregory Williams[29]
  • Josef Wonsever
  • Joseph Zawodny

2019

[30]

  • 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

  1. ^ Morris, John S. (1961) "President Will Give Medal to Astronaut", The New York Times, May 7, 1961.
  2. ^ "Distinguished Service Medal, NASA, 1961, Alan Shepard". Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved March 7, 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Virgil I. Grissom (Lieutenant Colonel, USAF)" (PDF). NASA. December 1997. Retrieved March 7, 2021.
  4. ^ "President John F. Kennedy Pins NASA Distinguished Service Medal on John Glenn". NASA. August 7, 2017. Retrieved March 7, 2021.
  5. ^ "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.
  6. ^ . NASA. October 2013. Archived from the original on November 20, 2016. Retrieved March 7, 2021.
  7. ^ "mach-buster.co.uk".
  8. ^ "President Kennedy Awards the NASA Distinguished Service Medal to Major Gordon Cooper, 21 May 1963". JOHN F. KENNEDY PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM.
  9. ^ a b Schudel, Matt (16 November 2005). "Willis Shapley Dies". Washington Post. Retrieved July 18, 2019.
  10. ^ "appa". history.nasa.gov. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  11. ^ "Astronaut Bio: Robert L. Crippen (07\2001)". 11 February 2015.
  12. ^ "Biographical Sketch" (PDF). NASA. December 1986. Retrieved March 7, 2021.
  13. ^ "Robert O. Aller, 76". Washington Post. June 6, 2006. Retrieved March 7, 2021.
  14. ^ "Astronaut Bio: Franklin Story Musgrave (M.D.)". 11 February 2015.
  15. ^ "NASA medal to Aldridge".
  16. ^ "Chief Of Staff Courtney Stadd Announces Plans To Leave Agency". NASA Newsroom. May 27, 2003. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
  17. ^ James Voss 2010-05-29 at the Wayback Machine
  18. ^ "Astronaut Bio: William McCool 5/04". 11 February 2015.
  19. ^ "NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Honors Employees at Annual Awards Ceremony".
  20. ^ JPL - JPL's New Associate Director Led Successful Mars Exploration
  21. ^ "Historical Recipient List" (PDF). NASA. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
  22. ^ NASA – Tampa Native Hendriksen Receives NASA Distinguished Service Medal
  23. ^ "Christopher Scolese Receives the NASA Distinguished Service Medal (200908120001HQ)". 12 August 2009.
  24. ^ "NASA Agency Honor Awards 2010" (PDF). NASA.
  25. ^ (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-02-03.
  26. ^ a b "NASA Awards" (PDF). Spaceport News. 7 September 2012. Retrieved 7 September 2012.
  27. ^ "Distinguished Public Service Medal Honorees". 7 September 2012. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
  28. ^ "NASA Agency Honor Awards 2018" (PDF). NASA.
  29. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l The Agency Honor Award was awarded between April 2, 2017, and May 31, 2018, outside the normal awards cycle
  30. ^ "2019 Administrator's Agency Honor Awards" (PDF). August 28, 2019.

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CountryUnited StatesPresented bythe National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationEligibilityFederal government employeesStatusActiveEstablishedJuly 29 1959First awarded1959NASA Distinguished Service RibbonPrecedenceNext higher Congressional Space Medal of HonorEquivalentDistinguished Public Service MedalNext lower Outstanding Leadership MedalThe 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 Contents 1 Recipients 1 1 1959 1 2 1961 1 3 1962 1 4 1963 1 5 1965 1 6 1968 1 7 1969 1 8 1970 1 9 1971 1 10 1972 1 11 1973 1 12 1974 1 13 1975 1 14 1976 1 15 1977 1 16 1978 1 17 1980 1 18 1981 1 19 1984 1 20 1988 1 21 1991 1 22 1992 1 23 1994 1 24 1995 1 25 1996 1 26 2000 1 27 2001 1 28 2002 1 29 2004 1 30 2005 1 31 2006 1 32 2007 1 33 2008 1 34 2009 1 35 2010 1 36 2011 1 37 2012 1 38 2015 1 39 2016 1 40 2017 1 41 2018 1 42 2019 2 See also 3 References 4 External linksRecipients Edit1959 Edit John W Crowley Jr NASA Director of Aeronautical and Space Research 1 1961 Edit Alan Shepard May 8 2 Virgil I Grissom July 22 3 1962 Edit John Glenn 4 Robert Gilruth 5 Scott Carpenter 6 Wally Schirra October 15 Forrest S Petersen 7 X 15 pilot Robert White X 15 pilot Joseph A Walker X 15 pilot Walter C Williams1963 Edit Gordon Cooper 8 1965 Edit Wally Schirra December 30 second award 1968 Edit James Webb Alexander Flax1969 Edit William A Anders Frank A Bogart Carroll H Bolender Frank Borman Robert E Bourdeau Eugene A Cernan Roger B Chaffee John F Clark Raymond L Clark Ozro M Covington Kurt H Debus Maxime A Faget Robert R Gilruth Harry H Gorman Virgil I Grissom second award 3 Hans F Gruene George H Hage Wesley L Hjornevik Lee B James David M Jones Kenneth S Kleinknecht Christopher C Kraft James A Lovell George M Low Charles W Matthews Alexander A McCool James A McDivitt Jessie L Mitchell George E Mueller John E Naugle Edmund F O Connor Rocco A Petrone Samuel C Phillips Joseph Purcell Eberhard F M Rees Ludie G Richard Arthur Rudolph Julian W Scheer William C Schneider Russell L Schweickart David R Scott Robert C Seamans Willis H Shapley 9 Albert F Siepert Donald K Slayton Thomas P Stafford Gerald M Truszynski Wernher von Braun Hermann K Weidner Edward H White John S Williams John W Young 1970 Edit Edwin E Aldrin Neil A Armstrong Alan L Bean Michael Collins Charles Conrad Richard F Gordon Fred W Haise James A Lovell second award Thomas O Paine John L Swigert1971 Charles J Donlan James B Irwin Vincent L Johnson Walter J Kapryan Eugene F Kranz Bruce T Lundin Glynn S Lunney James A McDivitt Edgar D Mitchell Bernard Moritz Dale D Myers Oran W Nicks Stuart A Roosa David R Scott second award Alan B Shepard second award Sigurd A Sjoberg John W Townsend Alfred M Worden 1972 Edit Charles M Duke Paul Werner Gast William R Lucas Hans M Mark Thomas K Mattingly Richard C McCurdy William T Pecora Dan Schneiderman John W Young second award 1973 Edit George W S Abbey Alan L Bean second award Leland F Belew Charles A Berry Aleck C Bond Anthony J Calio Eugene A Cernan second award Aaron Cohen Charles Conrad second award Richard W Cook John H Disher Paul C Donnelly Ronald E Evans Arnold W Frutkin Owen K Garriott Ernst Geissler Roy E Godfrey Robert H Gray George B Hardy Robert C Hock William P Horton S Neil Hosenball Roy P Jackson Richard S Johnston Joseph P Kerwin James E Kingsbury Jack A Kinzler Kenneth S Kleinknecht second award Joseph N Kotanchik Chester M Lee William E Lilly Jack R Lousma Owen G Morris Rocco A Petrone Isom A Rigell Miles Ross George T Sasseen Harrison H Schmitt William C Schneider Richard G Smith Howard W Tindall Paul J Weitz 1974 Edit Donald D Buchanan Gerald P Carr Walker E Giberson Edward G Gibson Charles F Hall Robert L Krieger Dale D Myers William R Pogue Norman Pozinsky Martin L Raines Lee R Scherer John M Thole Robert F Thompson 1975 Edit Vance D Brand Robert H Curtin M P Frank Donald P Hearth Chester M Lee Glynn S Lunney Joseph B Mahon Ellery B May John L McLucas William Nordberg George F Page Donald K Slayton second award Thomas P Stafford second award David Williamson 1976 Edit Charles J Donlan Isaac T Gillam Charles R Gunn William M Lohse Charles W Mathews John J Neilon Leonard Roberts William R Schindler 1977 Edit Edgar M Cortright Malcolm R Currie James C Fletcher Noel W Hinners Leonard Jaffe 10 Harriett G Jenkins Robert S Kraemer Bruce T Lundin Hans M Mark James S Martin John E Naugle Henry W Norris A Thomas Young 1978 Edit Kenneth R Chapman Duward Crow Robert H Curtin Marvin L McNickle David R Scott Third Award Milton O Thompson Gerald M Truszynski 1980 Edit William H Bayley1981 Edit Robert L Crippen 11 Paul C Donnelly James B Odom 12 Andrew J Stofan John F Yardley Walter C Williams second award 1984 Edit Robert O Aller 13 1988 Edit Willis H Shapley 9 second award 1991 Edit John R Casani1992 Edit Berrien Moore III Mark Albrecht Story Musgrave 14 1994 Edit Joseph H Rothenberg1995 Edit Dr Charles J Pellerin Bill G Aldridge 15 1996 Edit Gerald M Smith2000 Edit Joseph H Rothenberg2001 Edit Jack Brooks Claude Nicollier Courtney Stadd 16 James S Voss 17 Joseph Philip Loftus2002 Edit Scott E Parazynski2004 Edit Kalpana Chawla William McCool 18 Axel Roth 19 Brock Randy Stone Lott W Brantley Jr G Scott Hubbard Edward T Lu2005 Edit Firouz Naderi 20 2006 Edit Eileen M Collins 21 2007 Edit Douglas Hendriksen 22 2008 Edit Walter Cunningham Donn Eisele Fuk Li Walter Schirra Third Award E Myles Standish Richard Sunseri2009 Edit Christopher Scolese 23 Stephanie D Wilson2010 Edit 24 David K Alonso Scott D Altman John M Grunsfeld Kenneth M Ford Jeffrey M Hanley John T James Suresh M Joshi William H Kinard Steven J Ostro Mark L Polansky Frederick Sturckow Jacob Trombka David A Wolf 2011 Edit Stephen K Robinson Richard Mushotzky Richard Grammier Daniel McCleese Richard Fisher Stephanie D Wilson James E Fesmire Dmitri Kondratyev 2012 Edit Frank J Benz 25 Byron Butler Sam V Digesu Christopher J Ferguson David C Folta Michael E Fossum Mark E Kelly Alan J Lindenmoyer David M Martin 26 Ann McNair Robert R Meyer Martin G Mlynczak Philip E Phillips 26 Craig L Purdy Daniel C Reda Joseph Savino Phillip A Sabelhaus Peter J Serlemitsos Robert M Stephens Michael T Suffredini Richard Zurek 2015 Edit Raymond G Clinton Jr Carl Preston Jones 2016 Edit 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 Edit Ellen Ochoa Dolores A Holland Dava J Newman Steven J Kempler Michael Hesse Paul A Newman Carol Mosier 27 2018 Edit 28 Theodore Adams Gale Allen 29 Christine Belcastro John Charles Charles Dovale Philip Eberspeaker 29 James Free 29 Cornelis Gehrels Pamela Hanes Kenneth Human 29 Robert Jacobs Debra Johnson Lauren Leo 29 Robert Lightfoot 29 Dawn Lowe Joel Montalbano Ellen Ochoa 29 Krista Paquin 29 Jonathan Pettus 29 Dennis Reuter Lesa Roe 29 Michael Sampson Christopher Singer 29 Hanwant Singh Gregory Williams 29 Josef Wonsever Joseph Zawodny 2019 Edit 30 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 WilcuttSee also EditList of NASA awardsReferences Edit Morris John S 1961 President Will Give Medal to Astronaut The New York Times May 7 1961 Distinguished Service Medal NASA 1961 Alan Shepard Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Smithsonian Institution Retrieved March 7 2021 a b Virgil I Grissom Lieutenant Colonel USAF PDF NASA December 1997 Retrieved March 7 2021 President John F Kennedy Pins NASA Distinguished Service Medal on John Glenn NASA August 7 2017 Retrieved March 7 2021 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 Scott Carpenter NASA October 2013 Archived from the original on November 20 2016 Retrieved March 7 2021 mach buster co uk President Kennedy Awards the NASA Distinguished Service Medal to Major Gordon Cooper 21 May 1963 JOHN F KENNEDY PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM a b Schudel Matt 16 November 2005 Willis Shapley Dies Washington Post Retrieved July 18 2019 appa history nasa gov Retrieved 20 July 2020 Astronaut Bio Robert L Crippen 07 2001 11 February 2015 Biographical Sketch PDF NASA December 1986 Retrieved March 7 2021 Robert O Aller 76 Washington Post June 6 2006 Retrieved March 7 2021 Astronaut Bio Franklin Story Musgrave M D 11 February 2015 NASA medal to Aldridge Chief Of Staff Courtney Stadd Announces Plans To Leave Agency NASA Newsroom May 27 2003 Retrieved 2 January 2017 James Voss Archived 2010 05 29 at the Wayback Machine Astronaut Bio William McCool 5 04 11 February 2015 NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Honors Employees at Annual Awards Ceremony JPL JPL s New Associate Director Led Successful Mars Exploration Historical Recipient List PDF NASA Retrieved 24 April 2021 NASA Tampa Native Hendriksen Receives NASA Distinguished Service Medal Christopher Scolese Receives the NASA Distinguished Service Medal 200908120001HQ 12 August 2009 NASA Agency Honor Awards 2010 PDF NASA Distinguished Service Medal PDF Archived from the original PDF on 2015 02 03 a b NASA Awards PDF Spaceport News 7 September 2012 Retrieved 7 September 2012 Distinguished Public Service Medal Honorees 7 September 2012 Retrieved 23 February 2018 NASA Agency Honor Awards 2018 PDF NASA a b c d e f g h i j k l The Agency Honor Award was awarded between April 2 2017 and May 31 2018 outside the normal awards cycle 2019 Administrator s Agency Honor Awards PDF August 28 2019 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to NASA Distinguished Service Medal NASA awards National Aeronautics and Space Administration Honor Awards 1969 1978 List of NASA medal recipients Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title NASA Distinguished Service Medal amp oldid 1129561061, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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