* Christopher C. Kraft, Jr, aeronautical engineer ; administrator at Hampton, Langley Research Center NACA / NASA ; great flight director of the space program

Prior to this trip NASA administrator Thomas O. Paine had approached Collins and said that Secretary of State William P. Rogers was interested in appointing Collins to the position of Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs.

* Michael D. Griffin, head administrator of NASA

* Richard H. Truly-Eighth NASA administrator.

In a letter to NASA administrator James C. Fletcher, George Low wrote that " Gold should realize that being funded by the Government and NASA is a privilege, and that it would make little sense for us to fund him as long as his views are what they are now ".

* Lori Garver, deputy NASA administrator

NASA administrator James E. Webb once commented that the United States never would have placed a man on the Moon if it were not for Smith.

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

Donald Kent Slayton ( March 1, 1924 – June 13, 1993 ), better known as Deke Slayton, was an American World War II pilot, one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts, and a NASA administrator.

NASA also created a new Office of Safety, Reliability and Quality Assurance, headed as the commission had specified by a NASA associate administrator who reported directly to the NASA administrator.

In August 2009, the NASA assistant associate administrator for the Launch Services Program stated that NASA might purchase additional Delta II launches beyond those it had planned at that time.

NASA Administrator Michael D. Griffin invited Horowitz back to NASA as an associate administrator so he could lead the effort to develop this hardware.

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.

* William Robert Graham ( born 1937 ), former NASA administrator

When Goldin returned to NASA as administrator, he pioneered the " faster, better, cheaper " approach that proposed NASA could cut costs while still delivering a wide variety of aerospace programs.

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.

Tito met criticism from NASA before the launch, primarily from Daniel Goldin, at that time the Administrator of NASA, who considered it inappropriate for a tourist to take a ride into space.

Daniel Saul Goldin ( born July 23, 1940 ) served as the 9th and longest-tenured Administrator of NASA from April 1, 1992, to November 17, 2001.

Goldin left NASA a few years later to work at the TRW Space and Technology Group in Redondo Beach, California.

In 1992, Goldin brought back the traditional NASA blue " meatball " logo.

By 1997, Goldin had started a largely successful campaign within NASA to eradicate the " worm ".

Since leaving NASA, Daniel Goldin has been engaged in robotics research at the Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, California.

* NASA biography of Daniel Saul Goldin

NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin supervised the addition of Russia to the project.

On April 23, 2001, NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin presented the agency ’ s highest honor, the Distinguished Service Medal to Brooks at a ceremony in the John Gray Center of Lamar University.

Goldin, who served as NASA administrator from 1992 until 2002, added “ Congressman Brooks took it upon himself to personally deliver support to one of the agency ’ s key programs: the design, development, and on-orbit assembly of the International Space Station ”.

After these incidents, the US Congress and NASA considered whether to abandon the program out of concern for astronauts ' safety but NASA administrator Daniel Goldin decided to continue the program.

There, NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin recognized Tempur-Pedic for successfully using NASA technology to create economic opportunity and promote a better quality of life for mankind – in both the consumer and medical sector.

Among his many awards and recognitions are: NASA Group Achievement Award, ORS Flight Experiment, 1986, NASA Productivity Improvement Award, New TCS Blanket Inspection Method, 1989, Golden Eagle Award, TCS Inspection, 1989, NASA Productivity Improvement Award, Thermal Interactive Mission Evaluation System ( TIMES-89 ), 1989, Silver Snoopy award, STS-40 Payload Bar Door Seal Anomaly, 1991, NASA Fellowship Program, 1992, NASA Group Achievement Award, Shuttle Plume Impingement Flight Experiment, 1995, Space Act Award, Thermal Interactive Mission Evaluation System, 1995, AR & SD Elite Team Award, Letter of Recognition from the Chief of the Automation, Robotics, and Simulation Division, for support given to operational evaluation of the FGB grapple fixture, Space Act Award, Thermal Synthesizer System, TSS, 1996, Letter of Recognition from the NASA Administrator, Daniel S. Goldin, for contributions in the development of the Quantitative Risk Assessment System ( QRAS ) model, 1997, NASA Group Achievement Award, Space Shuttle Risk Model Team, 1998, NASA Group Achievement Award, Space Station Phase 1 Program Team, 1998, NASA Group Achievement Award, Orbiter Upgrades Definition Team, 1998, Various Outstanding Performance Ratings, and Performance Awards, 1985 – 1997, Chairman, Thermal and Fluids Analysis Workshop ( TFAWS ), International Conference, NASA JSC, 1997, and the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal.

The Apollo program was the third human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ), the United States ' civilian space agency.

The program was named after the Greek god of light, music, and the sun by NASA manager Abe Silverstein, who later said that " I was naming the spacecraft like I'd name my baby.

" While NASA went ahead with planning for Apollo, funding for the program was far from certain given Eisenhower's ambivalent attitude to manned spaceflight.

So Gilruth was given authority to grow his organization into a new NASA center, the Manned Spacecraft Center ( MSC ).

It was also clear NASA would soon outgrow its practice of controlling missions from its Cape Canaveral Air Force Station launch facilities in Florida, so a new Mission Control Center would be included in the MSC.

Coleman was selected by NASA in 1992 to join the NASA Astronaut Corps.

* 1984 – NASA conducts the Controlled Impact Demonstration, wherein an airliner was deliberately crashed in order to test technologies and gather data to help improve survivability of airplane crashes.

Remote Agent ( remote intelligent self-repair software )( RAX ), developed at NASA Ames Research Center and JPL, was the first artificial intelligence control system to control a spacecraft without human supervision.

Livingstone2 was flown as an experiment onboard Earth Observing 1, and an F-18 at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center.

The Explorer program was transferred to NASA, which continued to use the name for an ongoing series of relatively small space missions, typically an artificial satellite with a science focus.

Armstrong's FM system was used for communications between NASA and the Apollo program astronauts.

The acronym FAQ was developed between 1982-1985 by Eugene Miya of NASA for the SPACE mailing list.

The first commercial use of fuel cells was in NASA space programs to generate power for probes, satellites and space capsules.

Galileo was an unmanned NASA spacecraft which studied the planet Jupiter and its moons.

NASA engineers were able to recover the damaged tape recorder electronics, and Galileo continued to return scientific data until it was deorbited in 2003, performing one last scientific experiment — a measurement of the moon Amalthea's mass as the spacecraft swung by it.

An earlier project which received some significant planning by NASA included a manned fly-by of Venus in the Manned Venus Flyby mission, but was cancelled when the Apollo Applications Program was terminated due to NASA budget cuts in the late 1960s.

JPL was transferred to NASA in December 1958, becoming the agency ’ s primary planetary spacecraft center.

It was while working as a consultant for NASA that Lovelock developed the Gaia Hypothesis, for which he is most widely known.

In early 1961, Lovelock was engaged by NASA to develop sensitive instruments for the analysis of extraterrestrial atmospheres and planetary surfaces.

The Skylab project, managed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Marshall Space Flight Center, was seen by the Manned Spacecraft Center ( later Johnson Space Center ) as an invasion of its historical role as the NASA center for manned spaceflight.