NASA Distinguished Service Medal

NASA Distinguished Service Medal
NASA Distinguished Service Medal
	NASA Distinguished Service Medal
Type	Medal
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"
Country	United States
Presented by	the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Eligibility	Federal government employees
Status	Active
Established	July 29, 1959
First award	1959
	NASA Distinguished Service Ribbon
Precedence
Next (higher)	Congressional Space Medal of Honor
Equivalent	Distinguished Public Service Medal
Next (lower)	Outstanding Leadership 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, Jr., NASA Director of Aeronautical and Space Research^[1]

1961

Alan Shepard (May 8) ^[2]
Virgil I. Grissom (July 22)^[3]

1962

1963

Gordon Cooper^[8]

1965

Wally Schirra (December 30) (second award)

1968

1969

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

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

1973

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

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

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

Charles J. Donlan
Isaac T. Gillam
Charles R. Gunn
William M. Lohse
Charles W. Mathews
John J. Neilon
Leonard Roberts
William R. Schindler

1977

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

Kenneth R. Chapman
Duward Crow
Robert H. Curtin
Marvin L. McNickle
David R. Scott (Third Award)
Milton O. Thompson
Gerald M. Truszynski

1980

William H. Bayley

1981

1984

Robert O. Aller^[14]

1988

Willis H. Shapley^[9] (second award)

1991

John R. Casani

1992

1994

Joseph H Rothenberg

1995

Dr. Charles J. Pellerin
Bill G. Aldridge^[16]

1996

Gerald M. Smith
William J. O'Neil

1997

Jerome Apt

2000

Joseph H Rothenberg

2001

2007

Douglas Hendriksen^[23]

2008

2009

2010

^[25]

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

Stephen K. Robinson
Richard Mushotzky
Richard Grammier
Daniel McCleese
Richard Fisher
Stephanie D. Wilson
James E. Fesmire
Dmitri Kondratyev

2012

Frank J. Benz^[26]
Byron Butler
Sam V. Digesu
Christopher J. Ferguson
David C. Folta
Michael E. Fossum
Mark E. Kelly
Alan J. Lindenmoyer
David M. Martin^[27]
Ann McNair
Robert R. Meyer
Martin G. Mlynczak
Philip E. Phillips^[27]
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
Ellen Ochoa

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

Ellen Ochoa
Dolores A. Holland
Dava J. Newman
Steven J. Kempler
Michael Hesse
Paul A. Newman
Carol Mosier^[28]

2018

^[29]

Theodore Adams
Gale Allen^[30]
Christine Belcastro
John Charles
Charles Dovale
Philip Eberspeaker^[30]
James Free^[30]
Cornelis Gehrels
Pamela Hanes
Kenneth Human^[30]
Robert Jacobs
Debra Johnson
Lauren Leo^[30]
Robert Lightfoot^[30]
Dawn Lowe
Joel Montalbano
Ellen Ochoa^[30]
Krista Paquin^[30]
Jonathan Pettus^[30]
Dennis Reuter
Lesa Roe^[30]
Michael Sampson
Christopher Singer^[30]
Hanwant Singh
Gregory Williams^[30]
Josef Wonsever
Joseph Zawodny

2019

^[31]

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

References

^ 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.
^ "NASA Medals Historical Recipients" (PDF).
^ "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. Archived from the original on 24 August 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
^ James Voss Archived 2025-08-07 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Astronaut Bio: William McCool 5/04". 11 February 2015.
^ "NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Honors Employees at Annual Awards Ceremony".^{[permanent dead link]}
^ 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". Archived from the original on 2025-08-07. Retrieved 2025-08-07.
^ "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 2025-08-07.
^ ^a ^b "NASA Awards" (PDF). Spaceport News. 7 September 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 August 2021. Retrieved 7 September 2012.
^ "Distinguished Public Service Medal Honorees". 7 September 2012. Archived from the original on 24 August 2021. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
^ "NASA Agency Honor Awards 2018" (PDF). NASA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2025-08-07. Retrieved 2025-08-07.
^ ^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" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 24, 2020. Retrieved February 15, 2021.
^ "2019 Administrator's Agency Honor Awards" (PDF). August 28, 2019.

External links

NASA awards
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Honor Awards (1969–1978)
List of NASA medal recipients

[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.

[grissom-3] "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] "Scott Carpenter". 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.

[WPOBIT-9] 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] "NASA Medals Historical Recipients" (PDF).

[13] "Biographical Sketch" (PDF). NASA. December 1986. Retrieved March 7, 2021.

[14] "Robert O. Aller, 76". Washington Post. June 6, 2006. Retrieved March 7, 2021.

[15] "Astronaut Bio: Franklin Story Musgrave (M.D.)". 11 February 2015.

[16] "NASA medal to Aldridge".

[17] "Chief Of Staff Courtney Stadd Announces Plans To Leave Agency". NASA Newsroom. May 27, 2003. Archived from the original on 24 August 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2017.

[18] James Voss Archived 2025-08-07 at the Wayback Machine

[19] "Astronaut Bio: William McCool 5/04". 11 February 2015.

[20] "NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Honors Employees at Annual Awards Ceremony".^{[permanent dead link]}

[21] JPL - JPL's New Associate Director Led Successful Mars Exploration

[22] "Historical Recipient List" (PDF). NASA. Retrieved 24 April 2021.

[23] "NASA – Tampa Native Hendriksen Receives NASA Distinguished Service Medal". Archived from the original on 2025-08-07. Retrieved 2025-08-07.

[24] "Christopher Scolese Receives the NASA Distinguished Service Medal (200908120001HQ)". 12 August 2009.

[25] "NASA Agency Honor Awards 2010" (PDF). NASA.

[26] "Distinguished Service Medal" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2025-08-07.

[spnSep72012-27] "NASA Awards" (PDF). Spaceport News. 7 September 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 August 2021. Retrieved 7 September 2012.

[dpsmh2018-28] "Distinguished Public Service Medal Honorees". 7 September 2012. Archived from the original on 24 August 2021. Retrieved 23 February 2018.

[29] "NASA Agency Honor Awards 2018" (PDF). NASA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2025-08-07. Retrieved 2025-08-07.

[spnFeb2021-30] ^ ^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" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 24, 2020. Retrieved February 15, 2021.

[31] "2019 Administrator's Agency Honor Awards" (PDF). August 28, 2019.

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