- Source: NASA Distinguished Service Medal
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, Jr., NASA Director of Aeronautical and Space Research
= 1961
=Alan Shepard (May 8)
Virgil I. Grissom (July 22)
= 1962
=John Glenn
Robert Gilruth
Scott Carpenter
Wally Schirra (October 15)
Forrest S. Petersen, X-15 pilot
Robert White, X-15 pilot
Joseph A. Walker, X-15 pilot
Walter C. Williams
= 1963
=Gordon Cooper
= 1965
=Wally Schirra (December 30) (second award)
= 1968
=James Webb
Alexander Flax
= 1969
== 1970
=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
=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
=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
== 1974
== 1975
== 1976
== 1977
== 1978
== 1980
=William H. Bayley
= 1981
=Robert L. Crippen
Paul C. Donnelly
Howard S. Hardcastle
James B. Odom
Andrew J. Stofan
John F. Yardley
Walter C. Williams (second award)
= 1984
=Robert O. Aller
= 1988
=Willis H. Shapley (second award)
= 1991
=John R. Casani
= 1992
=Berrien Moore III
Mark Albrecht
Story Musgrave
= 1994
=Joseph H Rothenberg
= 1995
=Dr. Charles J. Pellerin
Bill G. Aldridge
= 1996
=Gerald M. Smith
William J. O'Neil
= 1997
=Jerome Apt
= 2000
=Joseph H Rothenberg
= 2001
=Jack Brooks
Claude Nicollier
Courtney Stadd
James S. Voss
Joseph Philip Loftus
= 2002
=Scott E. Parazynski
= 2004
=Kalpana Chawla
William McCool
Axel Roth
Brock "Randy" Stone
Lott W. Brantley Jr.
G. Scott Hubbard
Edward T. Lu
= 2005
=Firouz Naderi
= 2006
=Eileen M. Collins
= 2007
=Douglas Hendriksen
= 2008
=Walter Cunningham
Donn Eisele
Fuk Li
Walter Schirra (Third Award)
E. Myles Standish
Richard Sunseri
= 2009
=Christopher Scolese
Stephanie D. Wilson
= 2010
== 2011
== 2012
== 2015
== 2016
== 2017
== 2018
== 2019
=See also
List of NASA awards
References
External links
NASA awards
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Honor Awards (1969–1978)
List of NASA medal recipients
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Ed White (antariksawan)
- Buzz Aldrin
- David M. Brown
- John Young (antariksawan)
- Donn F. Eisele
- George Low
- Christopher C. Kraft Jr.
- Richard F. Gordon Jr.
- Dale D. Myers
- David Scott
- NASA Distinguished Service Medal
- NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal
- Distinguished service medal
- NASA Exceptional Service Medal
- Distinguished Public Service Medal
- William S. McArthur
- Laurel Clark
- David M. Brown
- Gus Grissom
- Distinguished Service Medal (U.S. Air and Space Forces)
