NASA Exceptional Service Medal
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The NASA Exceptional Service Medal is an award granted to U.S. government employees for significant sustained performance characterized by unusual initiative or creative ability that clearly demonstrates substantial improvement in engineering, aeronautics, space flight, administration, support, or space-related endeavors which contribute to NASA programs.
The medal was inherited by NASA from its predecessor organization, the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA) and featured the NACA emblem. The original NASA version featured the NASA seal.
Notable recipients
- Buzz Aldrin (1969){{cite web|title=Buzz Aldrin: Highlights & Achievements|url=http://buzzaldrin.com/files/pdf/Highlights_Achievements.pdf|publisher=buzzaldrin.com|access-date=24 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221152823/http://buzzaldrin.com/files/pdf/Highlights_Achievements.pdf|archive-date=21 December 2016|url-status=dead}}
- Robert O. Aller (twice){{cite news |title=Robert O. Aller, 76 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2006/06/06/robert-o-aller-76/bfca7dbd-8960-4bc7-b120-9f2a5304d9c4/ |access-date=March 7, 2021 |newspaper=Washington Post |date=June 6, 2006}}
- Aseel Anabtawi (2007){{Cite web |date=21 August 2020 |title=Aseel Anabtawi |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37088472301 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20220706225119/https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37088472301 |archive-date=6 July 2022 |access-date=6 July 2022 |website=Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |language=en}}
- Neil Armstrong (1966)
- Brandon T. Bailey (2019){{Cite web |date=2019-02-25 |title=TMC Technologies of West Virginia Chief Technology Officer Brandon Bailey awarded NASA Exceptional Service Medal for cybersecurity services – TMC Technologies |url=https://www.tmctechnologies.com/tmc-technologies-of-west-virginia-chief-technology-officer-brandon-bailey-awarded-nasa-exceptional-service-medal-for-cybersecurity-services/ |access-date=2023-11-02 |language=en-US}}
- Charles Bolden (thrice){{cite web|url=https://www.usna.edu/Notables/astronauts/1968bolden.php|title=Charles F. Bolden|author=|date=|website=United States Naval Academy|publisher=U.S. Navy|access-date=March 31, 2021}}
- Frank Borman 1965{{Cite web |title=NASA Awards Recipient List |url=https://searchpub.nssc.nasa.gov/servlet/sm.web.Fetch/Agency_Awards_Historical_Recipient_List.pdf?rhid=1000&did=2120817&type=released |website=National Aeronautics and Space Administration}}
- John R. Casani (1965){{cite web|url=https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/deputy-assistant-laboratory-director-of-flight-projects-appointed|title=Deputy Assistant Laboratory Director of Flight Projects Appointed|author=|date=February 1, 1988|website=JPL|publisher=NASA|access-date=March 31, 2021}}
- Lin Chambers (2009){{cite web |title=NASA - NASA Honor Award Winners |url=https://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/news/researchernews/rn_nasahonorawards09.html |website=www.nasa.gov |accessdate=8 May 2020 |language=en}}
- Kevin Chilton{{cite web|url=https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/chilton_kevin.pdf|title=Kevin P. Chilton (General, USAF)|author= |date=March 2008|website=NASA|access-date=March 31, 2021}}
- Eileen Collins (1998){{cite web |title=Historical Recipient List |publisher=NASA |url=https://searchpub.nssc.nasa.gov/servlet/sm.web.Fetch/Agency_Awards_Historical_Recipient_List.pdf?rhid=1000&did=2120817&type=released |access-date=24 April 2021}}
- Michael Collins (1966){{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19550275/independent/|title=Whoosh to Altitude Record 'Tremendous Thrill' to Astros|agency=UPI|newspaper=Independent|location=Long Beach, California|page=14|date=August 2, 1966|via=Newspapers.com}}
- Lana Couch (1986){{cite web|url=https://engineering.purdue.edu/Engr/People/Awards/Institutional/DEA/DEA_1994/couch_l|title=Lana M. Couch|work=Distinguished Engineering Alumna Award|publisher=Purdue University College of Engineering|date=1994|access-date=2023-08-12}}
- Nagin Cox{{cite web|url=https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/people/257/nagin-cox/|title=Nagin Cox|author=|website=solarsystem.nasa.gov|publisher=NASA|access-date=March 11, 2023}}
- William H. Dana{{cite web|url=https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/about/biographies/pilots/william-dana.html|title=William H. Dana|author=|website=NASA|access-date=March 31, 2021}}
- Jean Dickey (1998){{cite web|url=https://eos.org/articles/jean-obrien-dickey-1945-2018|title=Jean O'Brien Dickey (1945–2018)|last1=Zlotnicki|first1=Victor|last2=Owen|first2=Susan|date=November 26, 2018|website=Eos|publisher=American Geophysical Union|access-date=March 31, 2021}}
- John H. Disher (twice, last in 1980){{cite news|title=J.H. Disher, Retired NASA Official, Dies|date=August 30, 1988|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1988/08/30/jh-disher-retired-nasa-official-dies/13fe9224-f7ff-4806-a459-bc42270b971c/|access-date=March 31, 2021}}
- Einar Enevoldson (1974 and 1980){{cite web|url=https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/about/biographies/pilots/einar-enevoldson.html|title=Einar K. Enevoldson|author=|website=NASA|date=17 June 2020 |access-date=March 31, 2021}}
- Christer Fuglesang (2010)[http://www.snsb.se/sv/Mediebank/Press/Pressmeddelanden/Christer-Fuglesang-far-medalj-av-NASA Christer Fuglesang får medalj av NASA] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100813135151/http://www.snsb.se/sv/Mediebank/Press/Pressmeddelanden/Christer-Fuglesang-far-medalj-av-NASA |date=August 13, 2010 }}, Swedish National Space Board, June 23, 2010
- Fitzhugh L. Fulton (1977 and 1983){{cite web|url=https://www.nationalaviation.org/our-enshrinees/fulton-jr-fitzhugh/|title=Fulton, Fitzhugh "Fitz"|author=|date=|website=National Aviation Hall of Fame|access-date=March 31, 2021}}
- Alfred Gessow (1974){{cite web|url=https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4012/vol4/appa.htm|title=SP-4012 NASA Historical Data Book: Volume IV, NASA Resources 1969-1978|website=NASA|access-date=March 31, 2021}}
- Gus Grissom{{cite web|url=https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/grissom_virgil.pdf|title=Virgil I. Grissom (Lieutenant Colonel, USAF)|author= |date=December 1997|website=NASA|access-date=March 31, 2021}}
- John M. Grunsfeld (1997, 1998, and 2000){{cite web|url=https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/government/grunsfeld-bio.html|title=Dr. John Grunsfeld|author=|date=|website=George W. Bush White House Archives|publisher=National Archives|access-date=March 31, 2021}}
- Umberto Guidoni (2002){{cite web|url=https://www.umbertoguidoni.it/onorificienze/|title=Onorificienze e riconoscimenti|author=|date=|website=|publisher=Umberto Guidoni|access-date=March 31, 2021}}
- Joseph Gutheinz (2000){{cite web|url=https://ecolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/2012-Fall/announce.gutheinz.html|title=Joseph Gutheinz, Jr.: "Finding the Missing Moon Rocks"|author=|date=2012|website=GSFC|publisher=NASA|access-date=March 31, 2021}}
- Chris Hadfield (2002){{cite web|url=https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/64090main_ffs_bio_hadfield.pdf|title=Chris A. Hadfield (Colonel, CAF, RET.)|author= |date=June 2004|website=NASA|access-date=March 31, 2021}}
- Karl Heimburg (1969){{cite web|url=https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/karl_heimburg_biography.pdf|title=Karl L. Heimburg|author=|date=March 27, 1972|website=NASA|publisher=|access-date=March 31, 2021}}
- Joan E. Higginbotham{{cite web|url=https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/higginbotham_joan.pdf|title=Joan E. Higginbotham|author=|date=November 2007|website=NASA|access-date=April 5, 2021}}
- David M. Jones{{cite web|url=https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106591/major-general-david-m-jones/|title=Major General David M. Jones|author= |date=February 15, 1972|website=U.S. Air Force|access-date=April 5, 2021}}
- Mark Kelly{{cite web|url=https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/kelly_mark.pdf|title=Mark E. Kelly (Captain, USN)|author=|date=July 2011|website=NASA|access-date=April 5, 2021}}
- Don Leslie Lind (1974){{cite web|url=https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/lind_don_0.pdf|title=Don (not Donald) Leslie Lind (Ph.D.)|author=|date=January 1987|website=NASA|access-date=April 5, 2021}}
- James A. Lovell (with star){{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/39739763/the_tampa_tribune/|title=4 Gemini Astronauts Agree Man Can Survive in Space|newspaper=The Tampa Tribune|location=Tampa, Florida|date=December 31, 1965|via=Newspapers.com|page=3-B}}{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23093107/the_evening_times/ |title=Johnson Sees Greater U.S. Success in Space |newspaper=The Evening Times |location=Sayre, Pennsylvania |date=November 23, 1966 |page=1 |via=Newspapers.com |agency=Associated Press}}
- Paul D. Lowman{{cite web|url=http://denali.gsfc.nasa.gov/personal_pages/lowman/lowman.html_old|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415034131/http://denali.gsfc.nasa.gov/personal_pages/lowman/lowman.html_old|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 15, 2012|title=Dr. Paul Lowman|author= |date=|website=GSFC|publisher=NASA|access-date=April 5, 2021}}
- William S. McArthur{{cite web|url=https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/mcarthur_william.pdf|title=William Surles "Bill" McArthur, Jr.|author=|date=September 2014|website=NASA|access-date=April 5, 2021}}
- Pamela Matson{{cite web|url=https://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/earthscience/awards|title=Division Awards|author=|date=31 March 2017|website=Earth Science at Ames|publisher=NASA|access-date=April 2, 2021}}
- Saverio "Sonny" Morea (twice){{cite web|url=https://airandspace.si.edu/support/wall-of-honor/saverio-sonny-f-morea|title=Saverio "Sonny" F. Morea|author=|date=|website=Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum|publisher=Smithsonian Institution|access-date=March 26, 2021}}
- James B. Odom (1973){{cite web |url=https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/jim_odom_biography.pdf |title=Biographical Sketch |date=December 1986 |publisher=NASA |access-date=March 7, 2021}}
- Robert J. Parks (1967){{cite web|title=Robert J. Parks Collection, 1983-1987|publisher=ArchiveGrid: Jet Propulsion Laboratory Library and Archives|url=http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/record.php?id=733100854|access-date=March 26, 2021}}
- Julie Payette (2010){{cite news|url=http://globalnews.ca/news/3595524/julie-payette-meet-canadas-new-governor-general/|title=Julie Payette: Meet Canada's next governor general|last=Scotti|first=Monique|work=Global News |date=July 13, 2017|access-date=March 26, 2021|archive-date=July 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170714004310/http://globalnews.ca/news/3595524/julie-payette-meet-canadas-new-governor-general/|url-status=live }}
- Arthur Rudolph{{cite web|url=https://www.jta.org/1985/02/05/archive/nasa-refuses-to-strip-war-criminal-of-the-dsm-award-it-gave-him-for-his-contributions-to-rocket-prog|title=Nasa Refuses to Strip War Criminal of the Dsm Award It Gave Him for His Contributions to Rocket Prog|author=|date=February 5, 1985|website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|access-date=April 5, 2021}}
- Tecwyn Roberts (1969){{cite web |url=https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/honors-an-apollo-era-pioneer|title=NASA Goddard Honors an Apollo-era Pioneer, His Legacy|last=Mitchell|first=Christina|date=November 15, 2019|publisher=NASA|access-date=March 26, 2021}}
- Walter M. Schirra (1964 and 1968){{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/39739763/the_tampa_tribune/ |title=4 Gemini Astronauts Agree Man Can Survive in Space |newspaper=The Tampa Tribune |location=Tampa, Florida |date=December 31, 1965 |via=Newspapers.com |page=3–B}}
- David Scott (1966){{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31060661/the_times_recorder/|title=Serious Problem in Space|agency=UPI|newspaper=The Times Recorder|location=Zanesville, Ohio|page=8|date=March 27, 1966|access-date=March 26, 2021|via=Newspapers.com}}
- Sigurd A. Sjoberg (1969){{cite book |last1=Gawdlak |first1=Ihor |last2=Fedor |first2=Helen |title=NASA Historical Data Book: NASA Resources 1969-1978 |date=1994 |publisher=National Aeronautics and Space Administration |location=Washington, DC |pages=405, 408 |volume=IV |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ocgZAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA405 |access-date=March 11, 2023}}
- Deke Slayton{{cite web|url=https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/slayton_donald.pdf|title=Deke Slayton (Mr.)|author=|date=June 1993|publisher=NASA|access-date=March 26, 2021}}
- Andrew J. Stofan (1975){{cite web|title=Historical Biography - Andrew J. Stofan|publisher= NASA|url=https://www.nasa.gov/content/historical-biography-andrew-j-stofan/|date=November 12, 2014|access-date=March 26, 2021}}
- Epaminondas Stassinopoulos (1992){{cite web|url=https://searchpub.nssc.nasa.gov/servlet/sm.web.Fetch/Agency_Awards_Historical_Recipient_List.pdf?rhid=1000&did=2120817&type=released|title=All Historical Awards|author=|date=|website=NASA|access-date=April 5, 2021}}
- Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper{{cite web|url=https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/stefanyshyn-piper_heidemarie.pdf|title=Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper (Captain, USN)|author=|date=July 2009|publisher=NASA|access-date=April 5, 2021}}
- Richard H. Truly (two awards){{cite web|url=https://history.nasa.gov/Biographies/truly.html|title=NASA Administrator, May 14, 1989-March 31, 1992|publisher=NASA|access-date=April 5, 2015}}
- Peggy Whitson (1993, 2003, 2006, and 2008){{cite web|url=https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/whitson.pdf|title=Peggy A. Whitson|author=|date=June 2018|website=NASA|access-date=April 5, 2021}}
- John W. Young (1965 and 1966)
See also
References
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External links
- [http://nasapeople.nasa.gov/awards/nasamedals.htm NASA awards]
- [https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4012/vol4/appa.htm National Aeronautics and Space Administration Honor Awards] (1969-1978)
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