NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal

The NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal is an award similar to the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, but awarded to non-government personnel. This is the highest honor NASA awards to anyone who was not a government employee when the service was performed.

NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal

Type	Medal
Awarded for	"distinguished accomplishments [that] contributed substantially to the NASA mission. The contribution must be so extraordinary that other forms of recognition would be inadequate."
Country	United States
Presented by	the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Eligibility	Non-government personnel
Status	Active
Established	July 29, 1959

NASA Distinguished Public Service Ribbon

Precedence
Next (higher)	Congressional Space Medal of Honor
Equivalent	NASA Distinguished Service Medal
Next (lower)	NASA Outstanding Leadership 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

Klaus P. Heiss (de)
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