| 1984 |
Owen K. Garriott - Manned Space Science from Skylab to Spacelab |
| 1985 |
Marcel Nicolet - Our Sun and Its Actions |
| 1986 |
John C. Brandt - Halley and the Exploration of Comets |
| 1987 |
C. Stewart Gillmor - Issues in Space Research: How the the Future Influences the Past |
| 1988 |
Colin O. Hines - Arecibo Observatory Then and Now |
| 1989 |
Gerald S. Levy - From the Ionosphere to Deep Space |
| 1990 |
Ulf Von Zahn - The Atmospheres of Earth, Venus, and Mars: More Different Than We Expected |
| 1991 |
Louis J. Lanzerotti - Impacts of Solar-Terrestrial Activity on Technological Systems |
| 1992 |
Peter M. Banks - Global Atmospheric Changes: Telltales and Other Interesting Phenomena |
| 1993 |
John S. Nisbet - How Seven Common Fallacies Were removed on the Way to Understanding the Ionospheric F Region |
| 1994 |
William E. Gordon - Arecibo from Start to Finish |
| 1995 |
John V. Evans - Twenty Years of Incoherent Scatter Studies of the Ionosphere |
| 1996 |
Thomas M. Donahue - The Galileo Mission to Jupiter |
| 1997 |
Charles L. Hosler - Fifty-five Years of Progress in Meteorology and a Look at the Future |
| 1998 |
Donald T Farley - Probing the Ionosphere with Giant Radars: The Science, the History, and a Little Politics |