NASA Distinguished Service Medal
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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).
Recipients
1959
- John W. Crowley, NASA Director of Aeronautical and Space Research[1]
1961
- Alan Shepard (May 8) [2]
- Virgil I. Grissom (July 22)[3]
1962
- 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. Williams
1963
1965
- Wally Schirra (December 30) (second award)
1968
1969
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1970
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- 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. Swigert
1971
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- 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
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- 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
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1974
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1975
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1976
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1977
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1978
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1980
- William H. Bayley
1981
- Robert L. Crippen[11]
- Paul C. Donnelly
- Howard S. Hardcastle[12]
- James B. Odom[13]
- Andrew J. Stofan
- John F. Yardley
- Walter C. Williams (second award)
1984
1988
- Willis H. Shapley[9] (second award)
1991
1992
1994
- Joseph H Rothenberg
1995
- Dr. Charles J. Pellerin
- Bill G. Aldridge[16]
1996
- Gerald M. Smith
- William J. O'Neil
1997
2000
- Joseph H Rothenberg
2001
- Jack Brooks
- Claude Nicollier
- Courtney Stadd[17]
- James S. Voss[18]
- Joseph Philip Loftus
2002
2004
- Kalpana Chawla
- William McCool[19]
- Axel Roth[20]
- Brock "Randy" Stone
- Lott W. Brantley Jr.
- G. Scott Hubbard
- Edward T. Lu
2005
2006
2007
- Douglas Hendriksen[23]
2008
- Walter Cunningham
- Donn Eisele
- Fuk Li
- Walter Schirra (Third Award)
- E. Myles Standish
- Richard Sunseri
2009
2010
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2011
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2012
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2015
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2016
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2017
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2018
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2019
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2020
- Roy W. Malone, Jr.
2021
- David A. Herda
- Paul K. McConnaughey
- H. Phil Stahl
- Bobby J. Watkins
See also
References
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