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.

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, Ph.D.
 * Bob Bishop, D.S.
 * Bruce H. Wendler

2007

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

2008

 * Klaus P. Heiss
 * 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 * was 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 * was 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
The following individuals were recognized June 28, 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