No, the Medal of Honor is a Combat award. Astronauts are not eligible.
He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal (the highest civilian award possible, equivalent to the Congressional Medal of Honor), along with fellow astronauts John Glenn, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins, on Nov 16, 2011.
Between the Russian and US space programs, just under 500 astronauts and cosmonauts have flown sub-orbital, orbital, and lunar missions in space. Armstrong and Aldrin and 10 other NASA astronauts have walked the surface of the Moon, the last in 1972. Many other countries sent astronauts to the Mir space station and the current International Space Station (ISS), for missions up to 6 months in length. (The single individual record is 437 days aboard Mir in 1995.) The fledgling Chinese space program has launched a total of 6 taikonauts into Earth orbit from 2003 to 2009. In 2004, the private corporation "Scaled Composites" flew two suborbital flights, with 2 solo pilots, to win the Ansari X prize for private spacecraft. (see related link)
Josette Biyo is a Filipino educator who is the first Asian to win the Intel Excellence in Teaching Competition held in Louisville, Kentucky in 2002. A minor planet was named Planet Biyo in her honor.
If Sith and Jedi had a fair face off, Jedi would win as there are more Jedi than there are Sith.
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You dont' WIN the Medal of Honor. It is awarded for Valor and Bravery
it won the honor not the medal.
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she was persistant
the Spingarn medal. this medal was the NAACPs highest honor.
No, you do not have to die to win the Medal of Honor. There have been many winners who lived through the action for which they were cited, Audie Murphy, Jimmy Doolittle to name a couple.
It won in 1968.
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Sergeant William Carney was the first black soldier to be awarded the Medal of Honor. This was during the Civil War.
No. The Medal of Honor is a military medal for an extraordinary act of bravery in the armed forces. LL Cool J is a rapper who has never served in his life.
It is the highest award that can be given to a member of the US services for bravery in battle. Most of the service men who have been recipients of this medal have died in the course of their action. It is quite common for someone to say that a soldier "WON the Medal of Honor." This is incorrect, you don't "WIN" the Medal of Honor. It's not a contest. He was "Awarded the Medal of Honor" is the correct phrase. The name of the medal is: Medal of Honor. To call it Congressional Medal of Honor is not correct. It is awarded in the name of the Congress by the President of the United States.
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