* NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal ( 1992 )

Colonel Casper has been awarded the Defense Superior Service Medal, two Legion of Merit Awards, two Distinguished Flying Crosses, 11 Air Medals, two Defense Meritorious Service Medals, six Air Force Commendation Medals, the Vietnam Cross of Gallantry, two NASA Distinguished Service Medals, the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, the NASA Exceptional Service Medal, four NASA Space Flight Medals, and the National Intelligence Achievement Medal.

Collins has received the Defense Superior Service Medal, Distinguished Flying Cross, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal with one oak leaf cluster, Air Force Commendation Medal with one oak leaf cluster, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal for service in Grenada ( Operation Urgent Fury ), the French Legion of Honor, NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal and NASA Space Flight Medals, the Free Spirit Award, and the 2006 National Space Trophy.

He also received NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal in 1988 and three NASA Distinguished Service Medals in 1985, 1988, and 1993.

* NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal

Distinguished Flying Cross ; Defense Meritorious Service Medal ; 3 Navy Commendation Medals, one with Combat V ; Air Medal with 2 Strike-Flight awards ; 2 Southwest Asia Service Medals ; NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal ; NASA Spaceflight Medal

* NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, 2006.

Evans Foundation Scholarship, 1970 ; University of Kansas Honor Scholarship, 1970 ; Summerfield Scholarship, 1970 – 1973 ; Veta B. Lear Award, 1970 ; Stranathan Award, 1972 ; Outstanding Physics Major Award, 1973 ; University of California Regents Fellowship, 1974 ; Group Achievement Award for software testing at the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory, 1981 ; NASA Outstanding Performance Award, 1981 ; NASA Superior Performance Award, 1981 ; Group Achievement Award for Second Orbiter Test and Checkout at Kennedy Space Center, 1982 ; Quality Increase, 1982 ; NASA Space Flight Medal ( 1984, 1986, 1990, 1997, 1999 ); Group Achievement Award for JSC Strategic Planning, 1987 ; NASA Exceptional Service Medal ( 1988, 1991 ); Special Achievement Award, 1988 ; Exceptional Service Medal for Return to Flight, 1988 ; Outstanding Leadership Medal, 1990 ; Special Achievement Award, 1990 ; Haley Flight Achievement Award, 1991 ; Kansan of the Year Award, 1992 ; Group Achievement Award for ESIG 3000 Integration Project, 1994 ; Presidential Rank Award ( 1994, 1999 ); Group Achievement Award for Space Shuttle Program Functional Workforce Review, 1995 ; Group Achievement Award for SFOC Contract Acquisition, 1997 ; Kansas Aviation Hall of Fame, 1997 ; University of Kansas Distinguished Service Citation, 1998 ; NASA Distinguished Service Medal ( 1998, 2000 ); Aviation Week & Space Technology Laurel Citation for Space, 1998, V. M.

* O ' Connor, Bryan, ( NASA ), " Eschede Train Disaster ", Leadership ViTS Meeting, May 7, 2007

* the NASA Medal for Outstanding Leadership

The Distinguished Flying Cross, Legion of Merit, Defense Superior Service Medal, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Navy Commendation Medal, Navy Achievement Medal, Meritorious Unit Commendation ( VX-4 ), National Defense Service Medal, Battle " E " Award ( VF-32 ), the Rear Admiral Thurston James Award ( 1973 ), the NASA Space Flight Medal ( 1984, 1989, 1992 ), the NASA Exceptional Service Medal ( 1985, 1988, 1991, 1992 ), and the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal ( 1993, 1994 ).

She has been awarded the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal in 1998, the NASA Exceptional Service Medal in 1995 and 2002, and the NASA Space Flight Medal in 1992, 1994, and 1997, the NASA Fellowship for Full-Time Study in 1983, the ASME National Old Guard Prize in 1978, the ASME Ralph Coates Roe Medal in 2001.

* NASA Exceptional Service Medal

Category: Recipients of the NASA Distinguished Service Medal

Category: Recipients of the NASA Exceptional Service Medal

He was awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal for his Gemini 4 spaceflight and was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.

Category: Recipients of the NASA Distinguished Service Medal

* NASA Exceptional Service Medal

Category: Recipients of the NASA Exceptional Service Medal

* 60px NASA Distinguished Service Medal

Category: Recipients of the NASA Distinguished Service Medal

* Abe Silverstein 1929, Aeronautical engineer, NASA center director, and Guggenheim Medal winner

Category: Recipients of the NASA Distinguished Service Medal

Category: Recipients of the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal

Bondar has received many honours including the Order of Canada, the Order of Ontario, the NASA Space Medal, over 22 honorary degrees and induction into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.

Chris has also received Vanier Award ( 2001 ), Meritorious Service Cross ( 2001 ), NASA Exceptional Service Medal ( 2002 ) and the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal ( 2003 ).

* NASA Distinguished Service Medal

Category: Recipients of the NASA Distinguished Service Medal

He has been awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Force Command Pilot Astronaut Wings, Presidential Medal of Freedom, and Congressional Gold Medal.

Category: Recipients of the NASA Distinguished Service Medal

Robert J. Helberg, who was born in Watonga, was awarded the Public Service Medal by NASA for his contributions to the Lunar Orbiter program.

** NASA Space Flight Medal

* NASA Space Flight Medal

* 2000 – NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission, using Space Shuttle Discovery.

* Atmosphere of Freedom: Sixty Years at the NASA Ames Research Center ( NASA SP-4314, 2000 )

** Futurama A Big Piece of Garbage NASA sends all of Earth's garbage into space in a cluster of a giant sphere aboard a rocket ( 2000 )

NASA Geocover 2000 image and USGS Topographic Map

In 2000, the Astrogeology Research Program of the US Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Arizona was funded by NASA ( as part of the Lunar Orbiter Digitization Project ) to scan at 25 micrometre resolution archival LO positive film strips that were produced from the original data.

Edwards retired from NASA and the U. S. Navy on April 30, 2000.

" Gemini 6: The NASA Mission Reports ", 2000 ISBN 1-896522-61-0

" Apollo 7: The NASA Mission Reports ", 2000 ISBN 1-896522-64-5

* NASA APOD: The North America Nebula ( May 1, 2000 )

Although NASA described Pioneer 6 as " extant ", there has been no contact since December 8, 2000.

He is a former member ( 1990 ) and chairman ( 2000 ) of the NASA Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee ( the " decade review ") and former Director of the Space Sciences Laboratory ( SSL ) at UCB.

Their model for their reported toroidal phenomena was extensively criticised by a December 2000 technical report commissioned by NASA.

The orbiter mission was rescheduled for launch in 2005, and NASA announced its final name, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, on October 26, 2000.

The NASA Mars Surveyor 2001 Lander was a planned Mars probe which was canceled in May 2000 in the wake of the failures of the Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander missions in late 1999.

Analysis with gas chromatography and mass spectrometry ( GC-MS ) studied its high molecular weight polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in 2000, and NASA scientists concluded that as much as 75 % of the organic matter in Nakhla " may not be recent terrestrial contamination ".

In a NASA interview prior to his 2000 spaceflight, Scott Altman commented on his role as an F-14 pilot involved in the filming of Top Gun:

In August 1998, NASA contracted EarthSat to produce Landsat GeoCover ( Geocover 2000 in NASA World Wind ) — a positionally accurate orthorectified Landsat Thematic Mapper and Multispectral Scanner imagery covering the majority of the Earth's land mass.

Horowitz was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in 1992, and piloted missions STS-75 ( 1996 ), STS-82 ( 1997 ) and STS-101 ( 2000 ).

In 1996, he was selected by NASA as an astronaut candidate and flew as a mission specialist and flight engineer aboard STS-101 in 2000.

* NASA Space Flight Medals ( 4 ), ( 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000 )

In December 2000, he became a NASA robotics instructor astronaut.