• 1911 –
Glenn H. Curtiss, for successful development of the
hydro-aeroplane. The first award. • 1912 – Glenn H. Curtiss, for the invention of the single-pontoon seaplane and development of the flying boat. • 1925 –
Sylvanus Albert Reed, for the metal propeller. • 1931 –
Packard Motor Car Co. for the design/development of the first, practical diesel aircraft engine, the
DR-980 radial engine. • 1941 –
Army Air Corps and the
Airlines of the US for pioneering worldwide air transportation vital to immediate defense. • 1951 –
John Stack for the
NACA Langley transonic wind tunnel. • 1961 –
North American Aviation with
Scott Crossfield,
Joseph A. Walker,
Robert Michael White and
Forrest S. Petersen,
X-15 test pilots. • 1971 –
David Scott,
James Irwin,
Alfred Worden, and
Robert Gilruth of the
Apollo 15 mission. • 1974 – John F. Clark of
NASA and Daniel J. Fink of
GE, representing NASA's Earth Resources Technology Satellite Program,
LANDSAT for mankind's management of the Earth's resources and with recognition to
Hughes Aircraft Company and
RCA. • 1975 –
David S. Lewis Jr. of
General Dynamics Corporation and the
F-16 Air Force Industry Team. • 1978 –
Sam B. Williams for development of the small, high-efficiency
turbofan. • 1981 – NASA,
Rockwell International,
Martin Marietta, and
Thiokol for the development of crewed reusable spacecraft noting astronauts
John Young,
Robert Crippen,
Joe Engle and
Richard Truly. • 1985 –
Russell W Meyer and
Cessna Aircraft for the outstanding safety record of the
Cessna Citation aircraft. • 1988 – Rear Admiral
Richard H. Truly U.S. Navy for the successful return of America to space after the
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. • 1992 –
Naval Research Laboratory,
US Air Force,
Aerospace Corporation,
Rockwell International, and
IBM Federal Systems Company for
Global Positioning System (GPS). • 1996 –
Cessna Aircraft Company for producing the
Citation X the US's first commercial aircraft to cruise at .92
Mach. • 2001 –
Pratt and Whitney,
Lockheed Martin,
Rolls-Royce,
BAE Systems,
Northrop Grumman and the
Joint Strike Fighter program Office for
LiftFan Propulsion System. • 2002 –
Sikorsky Aircraft and the
S-92 team, led by
Nicholas Lappos. • 2011 –
The Boeing Company for designing, building, delivering, and supporting the
787 Dreamliner. • 2013 –
Northrop Grumman/
U.S. Navy/Industry team for designing, building, and demonstrating the
X-47B; and for the aircraft's ability to autonomously operate from and perform arrested landings upon an aircraft carrier. • 2015 – The NASA-
JPL Dawn Mission team for orbiting and exploring
protoplanet Vesta and dwarf planet
Ceres. • 2016 – The
Blue Origin team for demonstrating rocket booster reusability with the
New Shepard human spaceflight vehicle. • 2021 – The
NASA/
JPL/
Ingenuity team for the first powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet, thereby opening the skies of
Mars and other worlds for future scientific discovery and exploration. • 2022 – NASA and Northrop Grumman for the
James Webb Space Telescope "for its unprecedented discovery mission to explore, identify and photograph what lies beyond what is currently known and to seek what is unknown." • 2023 – NASA,
Lockheed Martin, the
University of Arizona and
KinetX for
OSIRIS-REx, the first American mission to gather an asteroid sample and its return to earth • 2024 –
NASA and the
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory for the
Parker Solar Probe, which ventured into the
Sun's corona passing from the solar surface, closer than any previous spacecraft, and setting a record for the fastest human-made object at a speed of . • 2025 –
Firefly Aerospace's
Blue Ghost Mission 1 team for completing the first fully successful commercial lunar landing. ==Gallery==