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The NASA Distinguished Service Medal is the highest award which may be bestowed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States
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. The medal may be presented to any member of the federal government, including both military astronaut
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s and civilian employees. The NASA Distinguished Service Medal is awarded to those who display distinguished service, ability, or courage, and have personally made a contribution representing substantial progress to the NASA mission.






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The NASA Distinguished Service Medal is the highest award which may be bestowed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. The medal may be presented to any member of the federal government, including both military astronaut
Astronaut

An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a List of human spaceflight programs to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft....
s and civilian employees. The NASA Distinguished Service Medal is awarded to those who display distinguished service, ability, or courage, and have personally made a contribution representing substantial progress to the NASA mission. The contribution must be so extraordinary that other forms of recognition would be inadequate.

Typical presentations of the NASA Distinguished Service Medal included awards to senior NASA administrators, mission control leaders, and astronauts who have completed numerous successful space flights. Due to the prestige of the award, the decoration is authorized for wear on active uniforms of the United States military. Another such authorized decoration is the NASA Space Flight Medal
NASA Space Flight Medal

The NASA Space Flight Medal is a decoration of the NASA. According to its statutes, it is awarded "for significant achievement or service during individual participation as a civilian or military astronaut, pilot, mission specialist, payload specialist, or other space flight participant in a space flight mission." In practice the medal...
.

Upon the recommendation of NASA, the President may award an even higher honor to astronauts, the Congressional Space Medal of Honor
Congressional Space Medal of Honor

The Congressional Space Medal of Honor was authorized by the United States Congress in 1969 to recognize "any astronaut who in the performance of his duties has distinguished himself by exceptionally meritorious efforts and contributions to the welfare of the Nation and mankind." It is awarded by the President of the United States in Congres...
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NASA Distinguished Service Medal


Recipients


1959
  • John Crowley Jr. (First Award)

1961
  • Alan Shepard
    Alan Shepard

    Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr. was the second person and the first United States in space. He later commanded the Apollo 14 mission, and was the List of Apollo astronauts....
     (5/8/1961)

1962
  • John Glenn
    John Glenn

    John Herschel Glenn Jr. is a former astronaut who became the third person and first American to orbit the Earth, and later, United States Senate....
  • Wally Schirra
    Wally Schirra

    Walter Marty Schirra, Jr. was one of the original The Mercury Seven astronauts chosen for the Mercury program, America's first effort to put humans in space....
     (10/15/1962)


1969
  • William A. Anders
  • Frank A. Bogart
  • Carroll H. Bolender
  • Frank Borman
    Frank Borman

    Frank Frederick Borman, II is a retired NASA astronaut, best remembered as the Commander of Apollo 8, the first mission to fly around the Moon, making him, along with fellow crew mates Jim Lovell and William Anders, the List of Apollo astronauts#People who flew around the Moon without landing....
  • Robert E. Bourdeau
  • Eugene A. Cernan
  • Roger B. Chaffee
    Roger B. Chaffee

    Roger Bruce Chaffee was a United States Navy pilot who became an American astronaut in the Apollo program....
  • John F. Clark
    John F. Clark

    John F. Clark is the ninth Director of the United States Marshals Service. He was appointed to the position by president George W. Bush on March 17, 2006....
  • Raymond L. Clark
  • Ozro M. Covington
  • Kurt H. Debus
    Kurt H. Debus

    Dr. Kurt Heinrich Debus was a Nazi Germany V-2 rocket scientist who in 1962 became the first director of the Kennedy Space Center after being brought to the United States under Operation Paperclip....
  • Maxime A. Faget
  • Robert R. Gilruth
    Robert R. Gilruth

    Robert Rowe Gilruth was an American aviation and space pioneer.In the beginning of his career he was involved with early research into supersonic flight and rocket-powered aircraft and then with the manned space program, including the Mercury program, Gemini program and Apollo program projects....
  • Harry H. Gorman
  • Virgil I. Grissom
  • Hans F. Gruene
  • George H. Hage
  • Wesley L. Hjornevik
  • Lee B. James
  • David M. Jones
    David M. Jones

    David M. Jones was a United States Air Force pilot who served with distinction during World War II. He was one of the Doolittle Raiders whose exploits in April 1942 were dramatized in the film Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo....
  • Kenneth S. Kleinknecht
  • Christopher C. Kraft
  • James A. Lovell
  • George M. Low
  • Charles W. Matthews
  • James A. McDivitt
  • Jessie L. Mitchell
  • George E. Mueller
    George Mueller (NASA)

    George Mueller was hailed as one of NASA's "most brilliant and fearless managers.". He was Associate Administrator of the Office of Manned Space Flight from September 1963 until December 1969....
  • John E. Naugle
  • Edmund F. O'Connor
  • Rocco A. Petrone
  • Samuel C. Phillips
    Samuel C. Phillips

    General officer Samuel Cochran Phillips was a United States Air Force four star general who served as Commander, Air Force Systems Command from 1973 to 1975, and as the seventh Director of the National Security Agency from 1972 to 1973....
  • Joseph Purcell
  • Eberhard F. M. Rees
    Eberhard Rees

    Dr Eberhard Friedrich Michael Rees was a German rocketry pioneer and the second Director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. After being assistant manager of a steel mill in Leipzig, Germany, Rees arrived at the Peenem?nde#Army Research Center Peenem?nde in the Spring of 1939 and managed V-2 rocket fabrication and assembly....
  • Ludie G. Richard
  • Arthur Rudolph
    Arthur Rudolph

    Arthur Louis Hugo Rudolph was a rocket engineer for Nazi Germany who helped develop and produce the V-2 rocket. After World War II he was brought to the United States and worked for the U.S....
  • Julian W. Scheer
  • William C. Schneider
    William Schneider, Jr.

    William Schneider, Jr. is an United States politician who currently chairs the Defense Science Board.Schneider served as Under-Secretary of State in the Reagan administration, and later became a member of the Project for the New American Century ....
  • Russell L. Schweickart
  • David R. Scott
  • Robert C. Seamans
    Robert C. Seamans

    Robert C. Seamans is a state of the art 134-foot steel brigantine, named for former Chairman and Trustee of Sea Education Association's board....
  • Willis H. Shapley
  • Albert F. Siepert
  • Donald K. Slayton
    Deke Slayton

    Donald Kent ?Deke? Slayton was one of the original "Mercury Seven" NASA astronauts. Initially grounded by a heart condition, he would serve as NASA's Director of Flight Crew Operations....
  • Thomas P. Stafford
    Thomas Patten Stafford

    Thomas Patten Stafford is a retired United States Air Force Lieutenant General and a former NASA astronaut. He is one of only List_of_Apollo_astronauts#People_who_flew_around_the_Moon_without_landing....
  • Gerald M. Truszynski
  • Wernher von Braun
    Wernher von Braun

    Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun , a Germans rocket physicist and astronautics engineer, became one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Germany and the United States....
  • Hermann K. Weidner
  • Edward H. White
    Edward Higgins White

    Edward Higgins White, II was a United States Air Force officer and a NASA astronaut. On June 3 1965, he became the first American to conduct a Extra-vehicular activity....
  • John J. Williams
    John J. Williams

    John J. Williams may refer to:*John J. Williams , U.S. Senator from Delaware*John Joseph Williams , first Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts...
  • John W. Young


1970
  • Edwin E. Aldrin
  • Neil A. Armstrong
  • Alan L. Bean
  • Michael Collins
    Michael Collins (astronaut)

    Major General Michael Collins is a former United States astronaut and test pilot. Selected as part of the Astronaut Group 3 in 1963, he flew in space twice....
  • Charles Conrad
    Pete Conrad

    Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr. , was an United States astronaut and the List of Apollo astronauts. He also described himself as the first man to dance on the Moon....
  • Richard F. Gordon
    Richard F. Gordon, Jr.

    Richard Francis Gordon, Jr., Captain , United States Navy, Ret. is a retired NASA astronaut. He is one of only List_of_Apollo_astronauts#People_who_flew_around_the_Moon_without_landing....
  • Fred W. Haise
    Fred Haise

    Fred Wallace Haise, Jr. is a former NASA astronaut. He is one of only List_of_Apollo_astronauts#People_who_flew_around_the_Moon_without_landing....
  • James A. Lovell
  • Thomas O. Paine
    Thomas O. Paine

    Thomas Otten Paine , United States scientist, was the third Administrator of NASA, serving from March 21, 1969 to September 15, 1970....
  • John L. Swigert


1971
  • Charles J. Donlan
  • James B. Irwin
  • Vincent L. Johnson
  • Walter J. Kapryan
  • Eugene F. Kranz
  • Bruce T. Lundin
  • Glynn S. Lunney
    Glynn Lunney

    Glynn S. Lunney is a retired NASA engineer. An employee of NASA since its foundation in 1958, Lunney was a flight controller during the Project Gemini and Project Apollo programs, and was on duty during historic events such as the Apollo 11 lunar ascent and the pivotal hours of the Apollo 13 crisis....
  • James A. McDivitt
  • Edgar D. Mitchell
  • Bernard Moritz
  • Dale D. Myers
    Dale D. Myers

    Dale D. Myers was the Deputy Administrator of NASA between 6 October 1986 and 13 May 1989. He was born on 8 January 1922 in Kansas City, Missouri, and graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Washington in Seattle in 1943....
  • Oran W. Nicks
  • Stuart A. Roosa
  • David R. Scott
  • Alan B. Shepard
  • Sigurd A. Sjoberg
  • John W. Townsend
  • Alfred M. Worden


1972
  • Charles M. Duke
  • Paul W. Gast
  • William R. Lucas
    William R. Lucas

    William R. Lucas was the fourth Director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. He served as director from June 15, 1974 to July 3, 1986; when he retired as a result of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster....
  • Hans M. Mark
    Hans Mark

    Hans Michael Mark is a former United States Secretary of the Air Force and a former Deputy Administrator of NASA. He is an expert and consultant in aerospace design and national defense policy....
  • Thomas K. Mattingly
  • Richard C. McCurdy
  • William T. Pecora
  • Dan Schneiderman
  • John W. Young
  • H. Ross Perot


1973
  • George W. S. Abbey
  • Alan L. Bean
  • Leland F. Belew
  • Charles A. Berry
  • Aleck C. Bond
  • Anthony J. Calio
  • Eugene A. Cernan
  • Aaron Cohen
    Aaron Cohen

    Aaron Cohen is a former Israeli Special Forces operative, California-based counterterrorism consultant and managing director of IMS Security. Cohen was born in Montreal, Canada, and educated at Beverly Hills High School as well as Robert Land Academy in Ontario, Canada....
  • Charles Conrad
    Pete Conrad

    Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr. , was an United States astronaut and the List of Apollo astronauts. He also described himself as the first man to dance on the Moon....
  • Richard W. Cook
    Richard W. Cook

    Richard W. Cook was born in Muskegon, Michigan. From 1927 to 1933, he attended Michigan State University and graduated with a bachelor?s degree in civil engineering....
  • John H. Disher
  • Paul C. Donnelly
  • Ronald E. Evans
  • Arnold W. Frutkin
  • Owen K. Garriott
    Owen K. Garriott

    Owen Kay Garriott, Doctor of Philosophy is a former NASA astronaut who spent 60 days aboard Skylab in 1973 and 10 days aboard STS-9 in 1983. He is also the father of Robert Garriott and fellow spacefarer Richard Garriott....
  • Ernst D. Geissler
  • Roy E. Godfrey
  • Robert H. Gray
  • George B. Hardy
  • Robert C. Hock
  • William P. Horton
  • S. Neil Hosenball
  • Roy P. Jackson
  • Richard S. Johnston
  • Joseph P. Kerwin
    Joseph P. Kerwin

    Joseph Peter Kerwin, M.D. is a physician and former NASA astronaut. Kerwin was the first physician ever to be selected to be an astronaut. Born in Oak Park, Illinois, Illinois, he graduated from Fenwick High School, a private school in Oak Park, in 1949....
  • James E. Kingsbury
  • Jack A. Kinzler
  • Kenneth S. Kleinknecht
  • Joseph N. Kotanchik
  • Chester M. Lee
  • William E. Lilly
  • Jack R. Lousma
    Jack R. Lousma

    Jack Robert Lousma is a former NASA astronaut....
  • Owen G. Morris
  • Rocco A. Petrone
  • Isom A. Rigell
  • Miles Ross
    Miles Ross

    Miles Ross was an United States Democratic Party politician and businessman who represented New Jersey's New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1875 to 1883....
  • George T. Sasseen
  • Harrison H. Schmitt
    Harrison Schmitt

    Harrison Hagan "Jack" Schmitt is an United States geologist, a former NASA astronaut, University Professor and a United States Senate for one term....
  • William C. Schneider
  • Richard G. Smith
  • Howard W. Tindall
  • Paul J. Weitz
    Paul J. Weitz

    Paul Joseph Weitz was an American astronaut who flew in space twice....


1974
  • Donald D. Buchanan
  • Gerald P. Carr
    Gerald P. Carr

    Gerald Paul Carr is a retired United States Marine Corps Colonel and former NASA astronaut....
  • Walker E. Giberson
  • Edward G. Gibson
    Edward Gibson

    Edward George Gibson, PhD, is a former NASA astronaut....
  • Charles F. Hall
  • Robert L. Krieger
  • Dale D. Myers
    Dale D. Myers

    Dale D. Myers was the Deputy Administrator of NASA between 6 October 1986 and 13 May 1989. He was born on 8 January 1922 in Kansas City, Missouri, and graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Washington in Seattle in 1943....
  • William R. Pogue
    William R. Pogue

    William Reid Pogue is a retired United States astronaut....
  • Norman Pozinsky
  • Martin L. Raines
  • Lee R. Scherer
  • John M. Thole
  • Robert F. Thompson
    Robert F. Thompson

    Robert F. Thompson is a Democratic Party member of the Arkansas Senate, representing the 11th District since 2007. This district includes several counties in northeast Arkansas....


1975
  • Vance D. Brand
    Vance D. Brand

    Vance DeVoe Brand is a former NASA astronaut....
  • Robert H. Curtin
  • M. P. Frank
  • Donald P. Hearth
  • Chester M. Lee
  • Glynn S. Lunney
    Glynn Lunney

    Glynn S. Lunney is a retired NASA engineer. An employee of NASA since its foundation in 1958, Lunney was a flight controller during the Project Gemini and Project Apollo programs, and was on duty during historic events such as the Apollo 11 lunar ascent and the pivotal hours of the Apollo 13 crisis....
  • Joseph B. Mahon
  • Ellery B. May
  • John L. McLucas
    John L. McLucas

    John Luther McLucas was United States Secretary of the Air Force from 1973 to 1975, becoming secretary of the Air Force on July 19, 1973. He had been acting secretary of the Air Force since May 15, 1973, and undersecretary of the Air Force since March 1969....
  • William Nordberg
  • George F. Page
  • Donald K. Slayton
    Deke Slayton

    Donald Kent ?Deke? Slayton was one of the original "Mercury Seven" NASA astronauts. Initially grounded by a heart condition, he would serve as NASA's Director of Flight Crew Operations....
  • Thomas P. Stafford
    Thomas Patten Stafford

    Thomas Patten Stafford is a retired United States Air Force Lieutenant General and a former NASA astronaut. He is one of only List_of_Apollo_astronauts#People_who_flew_around_the_Moon_without_landing....
  • David Williamson
    David Williamson

    David Keith Williamson Order of Australia is one of Australia's best-known playwrights. He has also developed screenplays for film and television....


1976
  • Charles J. Donlan
  • Isaac T. Gillam
  • Charles R. Gunn
  • William M. Lohse
  • Charles W. Mathews
  • John J. Neilon
  • Leonard Roberts
    Leonard Roberts

    Leonard Roberts is an American actor.Roberts was born in St. Louis, Missouri and graduated from DePaul University Theater School with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting....
  • William R. Schindler


1977
  • Edgar M. Cortright
  • Malcolm R. Currie
  • James C. Fletcher
    James C. Fletcher

    James Chipman Fletcher served as the 4th and 7th Administrator of NASA, first from April 27, 1971, to May 1, 1977, and again from May 12, 1986, to April 8, 1989 and also worked at BPP....
  • Noel W. Hinners
  • Leonard Jaffe
  • Harriett G. Jenkins
  • Robert S. Kraemer
  • Bruce T. Lundin
  • Hans M. Mark
  • James S. Martin
    James Martin (NASA)

    Jim Martin was Project Manager for the Viking program. As Viking 1 landed on Mars, Martin hung up on a call from Gerald Ford, telling him that he was "busy right now" and to call back in three hours....
  • John E. Naugle
  • Henry W. Norris
  • A. Thomas Young


1978
  • Kenneth R. Chapman
  • Duward Crow
    Duward Crow

    Duward L. Crow was born in 1919 in Fort Payne, Alabama, Alabama. He was a United States Air Force lieutenant general.Crow graduated from DeKalb County, Alabama High School in 1936 and entered the University of Alabama....
  • Robert H. Curtin
  • Marvin L. McNickle
  • David R. Scott
  • Milton O. Thompson
    Milton O. Thompson

    Milton Orville Thompson was a NASA research pilot selected as an astronaut for the United States Air Force X-20 Dyna-Soar program in April, 1960....
  • Gerald M. Truszynski


2001
  • Jack Brooks
    Jack Brooks (politician)

    Jack Bascom Brooks is a retired Democratic Party politician from the U.S. state of Texas, who served for more than 40 years in the United States House of Representatives....
  • Claude Nicollier
    Claude Nicollier

    Claude Nicollier is the first astronaut from Switzerland and has flown on several Space Shuttle missions. He was appointed full professor of Spatial Technology at the ?cole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne on 28 March 2007....


2002
  • Scott E. Parazynski
    Scott E. Parazynski

    Scott Edward Parazynski, M.D. is an United States physician and a NASA astronaut. Parazynski's latest mission was STS-120 in October, 2007. This was his fifth space mission....

2003
  • Axel Roth

2004
  • Lott W. Brantley Jr.

2008
  • E Myles Standish
    E Myles Standish

    Dr E. Myles Standish is a mathematical astronomer, former professor at the California Institute of Technology and associated with Jet Propulsion Laboratory....
  • Richard Sunseri
  • Eric G. Roscoe
  • Fuk Li
    Fuk Li

    Fuk K. Li is the Director of the Mars Exploration Directorate at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.Dr. Li?s directorate is responsible for JPL?s projects exploring Mars, including two orbiters , two famous rovers , the Phoenix stationary laboratory which landed near the north pole of Mars in 2008, and is developing the Mars Science Laborator...
  • Walter Cunningham
    Walter Cunningham

    Ronnie Walter "Walt" Cunningham is a retired United States astronaut. In 1968, he was the Apollo Lunar Module pilot in the Apollo 7 mission. He is NASA's second civilian astronaut, Fighter pilot, Col....
  • Walter Schirra
  • Donn Eisele


Distinguished Public Service Medal


The NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal is a similar award for non-Government personnel. This is the highest honor NASA awards to anyone who was not a Government employee when the service was performed.

Recipients


1969
  • Harry H. Hess
  • Frederick Seitz
    Frederick Seitz

    Frederick Seitz was an :Category:American physicists and a pioneer of solid state physics. Seitz studied under Eugene Wigner at Princeton University, graduating in 1934....
  • Charles H. Townes


1971
  • Joseph G. Gavin
  • George E. Stoner


1972
  • Riccardo Giacconi
    Riccardo Giacconi

    Riccardo Giacconi is an Italy/ United States Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist....
  • Brian O'Brien
  • Gerald J. Wasserburg
    Gerald J. Wasserburg

    Gerald J. Wasserburg is an United States geologist. He is a Professor of Geology and Geophysics at the California Institute of Technology, known for his work in the fields of isotope geochemistry, cosmochemistry and meteoritics....


1973
  • Paul B. Blasingame
  • Joseph F. Clayton
  • Leo Goldberg
  • Clinton H. Grace
  • Robert E. Greer
  • George W. Jeffs
  • Thomas J. Kelly
    Tom Kelly (engineer)

    Thomas Joseph Kelly was an United States aerospace engineer.Thomas J. Kelly graduated from Cornell University in 1951, where he was a member of the Quill and Dagger society....
  • H. Douglas Lowrey
  • Joseph P. McNamara
  • Richard H. Nelson
  • Frank Press
    Frank Press

    Frank Press is an United States geophysics.Born in Brooklyn, New York, Press is the recipient of 30 honorary degrees. He graduated with his B.S....
  • Theodore D. Smith


1974
  • Ben G. Bromberg
  • Jack M. Campbell
    Jack M. Campbell

    Jack M. Campbell was the twenty-first Governor of New Mexico from January 1, 1963 until January 1, 1967. Campbell was educated at Washburn University, where he receive an undergraduate degree in 1938] and an LL.B degree in 1940....
  • Edwin G. Czarnecki
  • Harry Dornbrand
  • Jesse L. Greenstein
    Jesse L. Greenstein

    Jesse Leonard Greenstein was an American astronomer.He began his career at Yerkes Observatory under Otto Struve and later went to California Institute of Technology....
  • Bruce C. Murray
    Bruce C. Murray

    Bruce C. Murray was born November 30, 1931 in New York City, NY. He is a professor emeritus of planetary science and geology at Caltech and was Director of the JPL from April 1, 1976 to June 30, 1982....
  • William G. Purdy


1975
  • Grant L. Hansen
  • Willis M. Hawkins
  • Richard B. Kershner


1976
  • Edward W. Bonnett
  • Antonio Ferri
    Antonio Ferri

    Antonio Ferri was an Italy scientist, prominent in the field of aerodynamics, with a specialization in hypersonic and supersonic flight.Born in 1912 in Norcia, Italy, from 1937 he conducted research in Guidonia Montecelio, where the most prominent and advanced research on high-speed aerodynamics was taking place....
  • Theodore D. Smith
  • Lyman Spitzer
    Lyman Spitzer

    Lyman Strong Spitzer, Jr. was an United States theoretical physics and astronomer best known for his research in star formation and for his promotions of telescopes in space and research into plasma physics....


1977
  • Laurence J. Adams
  • Franklin W. Kolk
  • Walter O. Lowrie
  • Thomas G. Pownall
  • Carl Sagan
    Carl Sagan

    Carl Edward Sagan, Ph.D. was an United States astronomer, Astrochemistry, author, and highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics and other natural sciences....
  • Francis B. Sayre
    Francis B. Sayre

    Francis Bowes Sayre was a professor at Harvard Law School. He later served as ambassador to Siam, High Commissioner of the Philippines, U.S....
  • Ronald Smelt
  • Kurt Waldheim
    Kurt Waldheim

    Kurt Josef Waldheim was an Austrian diplomat and politician. Waldheim was Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and President of Austria from 1986 to 1992....


1978
  • Edward O. Buckbee
  • Gerald J. Wasserburg
    Gerald J. Wasserburg

    Gerald J. Wasserburg is an United States geologist. He is a Professor of Geology and Geophysics at the California Institute of Technology, known for his work in the fields of isotope geochemistry, cosmochemistry and meteoritics....


2004
  • Neil deGrasse Tyson
    Neil deGrasse Tyson

    Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist and, since 1996, the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History on Manhattan's Upper West Side....