Norman Thagard - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

• Inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame (2004)
• Who's Who In America; Who's Who In Science and Engineering
• Erskine Visiting Fellow, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, N.Z., (2001)
• Designated Honorary Conch and Citizen of the Florida Keys (2000)
• Participated in the 1998 Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California on an award-winning float ("Best Animation")
• Admitted to FSU's Circle of Gold Honorary Society (1998)
• A small portion of Jacksonville, Florida's 5th Street, in front of his alma mater, Paxon High School, renamed "Norman E. Thagard" Blvd (1998)
• Recognized in Guinness Book of Records for setting U.S. human space flight records (1997)
• The Society of NASA Flight Surgeons' 1997 W. Randolph Lovelace Award
• Recipient of Russia's Order of Friendship, presented personally by Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin (1996)
• Named as one of NASA's 15 "Superstars of Space Flight" (1996)
• Inducted into New Mexico's International Space Hall of Fame (1996)
• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics' 1996 Jeffries Medical Research Award
• Aerospace Medical Association's 1996 Hubertus Strughold Award for Space Medicine
• At the request of the Smithsonian Institution, his Russian "SOKOL" space suit was donated to the National Air & Space Museum (1996)
• Henry G. Armstrong Lecturer in Aerospace Medicine (1996)
• Florida Senate Commendation Resolution (1996)
• City of Tallahassee Commendation Proclamation (1995 and 2004)
• Aviation Week & Space Technology's 1995 Laurels Award
• American Astronautical Society's 1983 and 1995 Melbourne W. Boynton Award
• Florida State University's "Grad Made Good" award (1983) and Wescott Medal (1995)
• Designated by the Commandant of the Marine Corps an honorary Naval Astronaut Pilot (1992)
• Florida State University's student health center designated the "Thagard Student Health Center" by legislative act (1986)
• NASA Space Flight Medals
• NASA Distinguished Service Medal
• NASA Sustained Superior Performance Award (twice)
• Air Medals (11)
• The Navy Commendation Medal with Combat "V"
• The Marine Corps "E" Award
• The Vietnam Service Medal
• The Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry with Palm