# 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.

## 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, Ph.D.
* 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 * 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