2023 

No recipient due to COVID

2022

 No recipient due to COVID

2021

 No recipient due to COVID

2020

Scott McComb, Raisbeck Aviation High School

2019

Samuel and Marilyn Billings, Founders & Chief Executive Officers, 

Youth Aeronautics Education Foundation (YAEF)

2018

Kevin Simmons

2017

Larry Rivers

2016

2015

2014

Build A Plane

2013

Anthony “Tony” Janco

2012

Dr. Ralph Coppola

2011

Civil Air Patrol—Aerospace Education Program

2010

The Air Force Association (AFA)

Dean Davis

2008

Shelia M. Bauer

Kenneth J. Cook

2006

Jeri A. Martin

Rol Murrow

2004

Dr. Stephen S. Underwood

Gil and Phyllis Moore

Kenneth Huff

Edith Street

2003
Ann Grimm

Judith A. Wehn

Dale L. Eash

Alfred Hulstrunk

Kaye R. Ebelt

2002
Dr. Farouk El-Baz

The Challenger Center for Space Science Education

Deborah V. Gallaway

Patricia B. Church

Christy L. Garvin

Crystal L. Bloemen

2001
Mary S. Feik

Judith A. Rice

Michael R. McArdle

Jane A. Hodges

Jack D. Howell

2000
Dr. Charles H. Story

Sandy Armstrong

Dr. Thomas J. Connolly

Dianne S. Martin

1999
Dr. Steve Dutczak

Edwin W. Lewis, Jr., Colonel 

Tom Poberezny

Judy M. Dominguez

1998
Steven A. Applebaum

Dr. Peggy Baty Chabrian

Anthony Docal

Joan B. Whitney

Steven A. Bachmeyer

1997
Hubert E. Harber

Dr. Patty T. Smith

Dr. Joseph E. Ciotti

Mary Anne Thompson

Cheryl L. Cotton

1996
Oliver D. Kaldahl

Renee P. Livermore

Arthur I. Kimura

Dr. Carol L. Denicole

Thomas H. Sabatino

1995
Roberta B. Strachan

Dr. Phillip R. Brieske

Estella S. Earls

Dr. Kenneth Daly

James K. Jackson

Warren J. Barry, Brigadier General

1994
Dawn Charles

Johnnie Boyd, Brigadier General

Tyson Whiteside

Barbara Walters-Phillips

1993
Joan F. Emerson

Raymond Corey

Joseph M. Del Balzo

Patricia J. Fleener-Ryan

1992
Elva Bailey

William F. Shea

Dr. Paul A. Whelan

Susan Broderick Mallett

1991
Georgia M. Franklin

Roscoe Monroe

George Briskey

Dr. Troy G. Sullivan

Sue Ellen Darnell

1990

Earl G. Pingel

Gloria R. Shepard

Dr. Kenneth E. Wiggins

Barbara L. S. Koscak

1989

William D. Nixon

Eugene E. Harwell, Major General

Dr. Ben P. Millspaugh

1988
A. Scott Crossfield

Dr. Curtis M. Graves

Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager, Brigadier General

Patricia Burke Johnson

1984

Don Clausen

Noel A. Bullock

Melba Iris Harris

1986
John W. Horine

Mary Jo Knouff

Robin Kline

1985
Dr. Ted Colton

Dr. Pauline H. Maupin

Dr. Walter A. Lucas

1984
Carl E. Guell

Dorothy Prince Warren

John V. Sorenson

Donald T. Heiman

1983
Jack K. Barker

Dwight C. Moser

Dominick A. Pisano

Dr. Von Hardesty

Thomas R. Croson

William D. Madsen

C. Gorgon Higgins

1982
William J. Reynolds

James T. Pyle

Dr. Ernest D. Riggsby

The Ninety Nines, Incorporated

D. Jule Zumwalt

Dr. John T. Carter

1981
Henry Blankfort

William K. Baker, Colonel

Viola B. Wilhelm

John A. O’Hara

George M. McWilliams, Major General

Mr. Raymond J. Johnson

Dr. Elizabeth F. Martin

NASA Voyager Team

1980

Calvin W. Weiss

Gene Kropf

Minnie McRae Cutliff

The Aerospace Education Foundation of the Air Force Association

Leigh Wade, General, USAF

Dr. Paul E. Garber

1979
Dr. Emmett A. Betts

Dr. Mervin K. Strickler, Jr.

Dr. Frederick B. Tuttle