When Kennedy's newly appointed NASA Administrator James E. Webb requested a 30 percent budget increase for his agency, Kennedy supported an acceleration of NASA's large booster program but deferred a decision on the broader issue.

Dan Goldin became NASA Administrator on April 1, 1992, officially abandoning plans for near-term human exploration beyond Earth orbit with the shift towards a " faster, better, cheaper " strategy for robotic exploration.

NASA Administrator James Webb is standing directly behind the Mariner model </ center >

In 2005 NASA Administrator Michael Griffin identified space colonization as the ultimate goal of current spaceflight programs, saying:

* May 15 – Mercury program: NASA launches Gordon Cooper on Mercury 9, the last mission ( on June 12 NASA Administrator James E. Webb tells Congress the program is complete ).

Prior to Return to Flight, NASA Administrator Sean O ' Keefe declared that all future flights of the shuttle would go to the ISS, precluding the possibility of executing the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission which had been scheduled before the Columbia accident, despite the fact that millions of dollars worth of upgrade equipment for Hubble were ready and waiting in NASA warehouses.

In an internal e-mail apparently sent August 18, 2008 to NASA managers and leaked to the press, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin stated his belief that the Bush administration had made no viable plan for U. S. crews to participate in the International Space Station beyond 2011, and that Office of Management and Budget ( OMB ) and Office of Science and Technology Policy ( OSTP ) were actually seeking its demise.

On February 20, 2012, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Friendship 7 flight, Glenn was surprised with the opportunity to speak with the orbiting crew of the International Space Station while Glenn was on-stage with NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden at Ohio State, where the public affairs school is named for him.

The finalists were interviewed by an evaluation committee composed of senior NASA officials, and the committee made recommendations to NASA Administrator James M. Beggs for the primary and backup candidates for the Teacher in Space Project.

The call sign Columbia for the CSM came from Julian Scheer, the NASA Assistant Administrator for Public Affairs.

At a meeting at MSFC on August 19, 1966, George E. Mueller, NASA Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight, pinned down the final concept for the major elements.

* James C. Fletcher ( 1919 – 91 ), 4th and 7th Administrator of NASA.

Other notable members of the Panel include former Office of Personnel Management Director Janice Lachance and former NASA Administrator Sean O ' Keefe.

The NASA Administrator shall plan, develop, and implement a Near-Earth Object Survey program to detect, track, catalogue, and characterize the physical characteristics of near-Earth objects equal to or greater than 140 meters in diameter in order to assess the threat of such near-Earth objects to the Earth.

The NASA Administrator shall transmit to Congress not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act an initial report that provides the following: ( A ) An analysis of possible alternatives that NASA may employ to carry out the Survey program, including ground-based and space-based alternatives with technical descriptions.

On September 19, 1961, NASA Administrator James E. Webb announced the conversion of the Space Task Group into the new Manned Spacecraft Center ( MSC ) to be located at the Houston site.

He was met by Thomas O. Paine, the Administrator of NASA, whom he told that in the face of such suffering, space flight represented an inhuman priority and funds should be spent instead to " feed the hungry, clothe the naked, tend the sick, and house the homeless.

In 1967, Congress directed NASA to form an Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel ( ASAP ) to advise the NASA Administrator on safety issues and hazards in NASA's aerospace programs.

The NASA Administrator, James E. Webb, called the flight of Voskhod 1 a " significant space accomplishment " adding that it was " a clear indication that the Russians are continuing a large space program for the achievement of national power and prestige.

NASA administrator T. Keith Glennan decided on 19 April that Douglas Aircraft Company would be awarded the contract.

Eau Claire alumni include Ann Devroy, the former White House correspondent at The Washington Post ; T. Keith Glennan, the first administrator of NASA ; Mark Andrew Green, a congressman and ambassador known for his work with malaria ; Stanford University climate scientist Pamela Matson, winner of the MacArthur Fellowship ; Forbes 400 billionaire and entrepreneur John Menard ; stage and film actress Laila Robins ; chemist Richard Saykally, 1932 Professor Chair at the University of California, Berkeley ; Justin Vernon, Grammy Award-winning lead singer of Bon Iver ; and poet and literary critic Elizabeth Willis, winner of the National Poetry Series and the Guggenheim Fellowship.

Within a short time after NASA's formal organization, Glennan incorporated several organizations involved in space exploration projects from other federal agencies into NASA to ensure that a viable scientific program of space exploration could be reasonably conducted over the long-term.

In 1960, Glennan obtained the transfer to NASA of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency, located at Huntsville, Alabama, and renamed it the Marshall Space Flight Center.

By mid-1960, Glennan had secured for NASA primacy in the U. S. federal government for the execution of all space activities except reconnaissance satellites, ballistic missiles, and a few other space-related projects, most of which were still in the study stage, that the DOD controlled.

Upon leaving NASA in January 1961, Glennan returned to the Case Institute of Technology, where he continued to serve as president until 1966.

On the last day of 1959, Keith Glennan, Administrator of NASA, approved the Silverstein recommendations.

* T. Keith Glennan, first NASA administrator

In June 2001, NASA launched a second CMB space mission, WMAP, to make much more precise measurements of the great scale anisotropies over the full sky.

When subjected to the same cost-analysis as the 90-day report, Mars Semi-Direct was predicted to cost 55 billion dollars over 10 years, capable of fitting into the existing NASA budget.

In a 2001 report, NASA found the ozone thinning over Antarctica had remained the same thickness for the previous three years, however in 2003 the ozone hole grew to its second largest size.

The overall goal of Horizon was to place a human on the Moon, a mission that would soon be taken over by the rapidly forming NASA.

In 2002 the museum went into bankruptcy and was taken over by a NASA contractor, whereupon the family asked for everything back.

The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous-Shoemaker ( NEAR Shoemaker ), renamed after its 1996 launch in honor of planetary scientist Eugene M. Shoemaker, was a robotic space probe designed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for NASA to study the near-Earth asteroid Eros from close orbit over a period of a year.

When NASA was formed in 1958, it was given authority over all non-nuclear aspects of the Rover program.

In NASA spacesuits, communications are provided via a cap worn over the head, which includes earphones and a microphone.

To measure the spectrum of the diffuse X-ray emission from the interstellar medium over the energy range 0. 07 to 1 keV, NASA launched a Black Brant 9 from White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico on May 1, 2008.

New concepts for missions to the Neptune system to be conducted in the 2010s have been brought forward by NASA scientists on numerous occasions over the last decades.

For comparison, the similarly sized NASA Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity had, by their fifth anniversary in January 2009, traveled a total of and transmitted over 125, 000 images.

Named after Joseph Sweetman Ames and founded on December 20, 1939 as the second National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA ) laboratory, ARC became part of NASA in 1958 as part of the turnover from the dissolution of NACA, having now ( at the last estimate ) over $ 3. 0 billion in capital equipment, 2, 300 research personnel and a $ 600 million annual budget.

For example, in 1975, proposing to seek long-term habitability through artificial gravity and enough mass in space to allow high radiation shielding, the most ambitious historical NASA study, a conceptual 10000-person spacestation, envisioned a future mass driver base launching 600 times its own mass in lunar material cumulatively over years.

Bondar has received many honours including the Order of Canada, the Order of Ontario, the NASA Space Medal, over 22 honorary degrees and induction into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.

According to NASA, it was in part because of the excitement over McAuliffe's presence on Challenger that the accident had such a significant effect on the nation.

* NOAA and NASA researchers announce the ozone hole over Antarctica has grown markedly smaller since last year and has broken into two, due to warmer temperatures.

In March 2010, Boeing officially turned over to NASA the U. S. on-orbit segment of the ISS.

In March 2010, Boeing completed its contract and officially turned over to NASA the U. S. on-orbit segment of the ISS.

After NASA had received criticism over the nudity on the Pioneer plaque ( line drawings of a naked man and woman ), the agency chose not to allow Sagan and his colleagues to include a photograph of a nude man and woman on the record.

After the transfer, NRL rebuilt their spacecraft technology capability and have developed some 87 satellites over the past 40 years for the Navy, DoD and NASA.

The stamp featured a detail of the famous photograph of the Earthrise over the moon ( NASA image AS8-14-2383HR ) taken by Anders on Christmas Eve, and the words, " In the beginning God ..."

" Spaceguard " is the name for these loosely affiliated programs, some of which receive NASA funding to meet a U. S. Congressional requirement to detect 90 % of near-Earth asteroids over 1 km diameter by 2008.

During the ceremony, an Air Force band led the singing of " God Bless America " as NASA T-38 Talon supersonic jets flew directly over the scene in the traditional missing-man formation.

Although time-sensitive equipment movements of this nature were originally to be handled by Air Force cargo planes, NASA altered those plans and moved the equipment in two dedicated trains over the 1, 000-mile distance via the Santa Fe Railroad and the Southern Pacific Railroad.

Cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev orbited the Earth 64 times over nearly four days in space, August 11 – 15, 1962, a feat which would not be matched by NASA until the Gemini program ( 1965 – 1966 ).