NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal


The NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal is awarded to US government employees only for notably outstanding leadership which affects technical or administrative programs of NASA. The leadership award may be given for an act of leadership, for sustained contributions based on a leader's effectiveness, for the productivity of the leader's program, or for the leader's demonstrated ability in developing the administrative or technical talents of other employees.

Recipients

1962

1964

1964

1970

  • James C. Elms
  • Robert L. Krieger

1972

  • Leonard Jaffe

1973

  • Donald D. Arabian
  • Eugene H. Cagle
  • William C. Keathley
  • Edwin C. Kilgore
  • Eugene F. Kranz
  • Robert O. Piland
  • Stanley R. Reinartz
  • Philip C. Shaffer

1974

1975

  • Arnold D. Aldrich
  • Robert O. Aller
  • John P. Donnelly
  • Don M. Hartung
  • Seymour C. Himmel
  • Walter J. Kapryan
  • Robert N. Lindley
  • Bernard Lubarsky
  • Leslie H. Meredith
  • John J. Neilon
  • William H. Rock
  • Robert J. Shafer
  • Charles H. Terhune

1976

1977

  • Manuel Bautista Aranda
  • Loren G. Bright
  • G. Calvin Broome
  • Edmund A. Brummer
  • Robert L. Crabtree
  • John E. Duberg
  • E. Barton Geer
  • George N. Gianopulos
  • Wayne R. Glenny
  • Angelo Guastaferro
  • Jack E. Harris
  • Marshall S. Johnson
  • Louis Kingsland
  • Robert A. Leslie
  • Peter T. Lyman
  • William J. O'Neil
  • George F. Pieper
  • Ronald A. Ploszaj
  • James E. Stitt
  • Israel Taback
  • Allen E. Wolfe
  • Howard T. Wright

1978

  • Eugenio Covacevich
  • George C. Deutsch
  • James A. Downey
  • Edmond J. Golden
  • Robert E. King
  • John A. Manke
  • John P. Reeder
  • Geoffrey Robillard
  • Nancy G. Roman
  • Donald K. Slayton
  • Fridtjof A. H. Speer

1981

1984

  • H. Robert Lynn
  • Richard Sade
  • Robert E. Spearing

1992

  • Marshall E. Alper

2000

2006

2007

2009

  • Christian L. Hardcastle

2010

2011

2012

2014

  • Donald M. Cornwell

2020

  • Jason R. Adam
  • Kenneth L. Ashford, Jr.
  • Yvette Binford
  • Robert W. Bobo
  • Michael P. Bradford
  • Donald G. Chavers
  • Joseph C. Cianciola
  • John P. Crisler
  • Mike Gold
  • Monica S. Hammond
  • Roslin K. Hicks
  • Randall C. Hopkins
  • Richard T. Howard
  • Gary L. Humphrey
  • Ruth D. Jones
  • Joe L. Leopard
  • Jennifer B. McCaghren
  • Joseph J. Pelfrey
  • Lisa W. Smith
  • David L. Thaxton

2021

  • Wesley W. Deadrick
  • Casey L. Swails

2024

  • Nicholas G. Skytland
  • Joel B. Walker

2025

  • Justin C. Pane
  • Zachary S. Roberts