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NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal

NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal rather than just read about it. In short: 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.

Key takeaways

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Reference excerpt

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 Liam Sarsfield 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 * were awarded between 1 April 2012 and 31 March 2013, outside the timing of the normal awards cycle.

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.

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.

2018 The following individuals were recognized August 2, 2018.

2019 The following individuals were recognized August 28, 2019.

2020 The following individuals were recognized December 22, 2020.

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal

In research: NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Awards and decorations of NASA, Distinguished service awards, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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