Awards and Honors
Von Puttkamer has been honored with numerous high NASA awards, among them in 2004 with NASA's prestigious Exceptional Service Medal, the highest civilian order for outstanding services by a U.S. government agency. It was followed in 2007 by a distinguished NASA Honor Award for successful initiatives of advancing American-Russian cooperation in Spaceflight. In December 2008, Dr. von Puttkamer was honored in Philadelphia, PA, by the US-wide German-American Heritage Foundation (GAHF) with the “Distinguished German-American of the Year” award, accompanied among else by personal congratulatory letters from US-President George W. Bush, then-NASA Administrator Michael Griffin and the Governors of the States of Pennsylvania and Virginia.
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