* In the West Wing episode " The Warfare of Genghis Khan ", a NASA staffer describes Mars Direct to the skeptical White House Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman and is able to convince him of its merit.

Crippen was stationed at Kennedy Space Center, Florida from July 1987 to December 1989, serving as Deputy Director, Shuttle Operations for NASA Headquarters.

Bloomfield has served as Deputy Director of Flight Crew Operations at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas since 2006, before resigning from NASA in July 2007.

He served as Deputy Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight at NASA headquarters from March 1982 to December 1982.

Dr. Davis retired from NASA in 2005, and currently works for Jacobs Engineering Group as a Vice President and Deputy General Manager.

During the spring of 2002, he served as Deputy Associate Administrator for Safety and Mission Assurance, at NASA Headquarters, Washington, D. C.

Weitz was Deputy Director of the Johnson Space Center when he retired from NASA in May 1994.

Fabian instead left NASA on January 1, 1986 to become Director of Space, Deputy Chief of Staff, Plans and Operations, Headquarters USAF.

* Alan M. Lovelace ( born 1929 ), former Deputy Administrator of NASA

Dr. Thomas O. Paine was appointed Deputy Administrator of NASA on January 31, 1968.

Category: Deputy Administrators of NASA

Shaw left the Johnson Space Center in October 1989 to assume the NASA Headquarters senior executive position of Deputy Director, Space Shuttle Operations, located at the Kennedy Space Center.

Shaw moved on to serve as the Deputy Program Manager, Space Shuttle, as a NASA Headquarters employee located at the Kennedy Space Center.

Upon accepting this promotion, Stewart was reassigned from NASA to be the Deputy Commanding General, U. S. Army Strategic Defense Command, in Huntsville, Alabama.

Gen Chilton left NASA in 1998 to become Deputy Director, Political Military Affairs for Asia, Pacific, and Middle East.

In 1993, Dr. Dunbar served as Deputy Associate Administrator, Office of Life and Microgravity Sciences, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D. C.

) is a former NASA astronaut and former NASA Deputy Administrator.

On August 12, 2002 Mr. Gregory was sworn in as NASA Deputy Administrator.

Category: Deputy Administrators of NASA

George Low became NASA Deputy Administrator in December 1969, serving with Administrators Thomas O. Paine and James C. Fletcher.

Category: Deputy Administrators of NASA

In October 1990, following his retirement from NASA and the Navy, McCulley was employed by Lockheed Martin Space Operations and served as Vice President and Deputy Launch Site Director for the Kennedy Space Center.

In March 1996, Meade left NASA and the military to join the Lockheed Skunk Works as the Deputy Project Manager for the X-33 vehicle.

After STS-67, Oswald was assigned to NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC as Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Operations.

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.