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
1961 Edward Raymond Sharp Henry J. E. Reid Abe Silverstein
1962 Paul F. Bikle Hartley A. Soulé George B. Graves Jr. Maxime A. Faget George M. Low John W. Townsend Jr.
1963 Morton J. Stoller Maj. Gen. Leighton I. Davis (USAF) Kenneth S. Kleinknecht Christopher C. Kraft Jr. G. Merritt Preston Floyd L. Thompson D. Brainerd Holmes Charles J. Donlan Walter Haeussermann William A. Mrazek John A. Johnson
1964 De E. Beeler Col. Robert P. Young (USA) Walter L. Lingle Wernher von Braun Kurt Debus Harry J. Goett
1965 Lt. Gen. Walter K. Wilson Jr. (USA) Charles W. Mathews Oran W. Nicks Bruce T. Lundin Smith J. DeFrance
1966 Earl D. Hilburn John D. Young Oscar W. Schey John F. Clark Edgar M. Cortright Robert L. Krieger George J. Vecchietti Harold B. Finger Harry H. Gorman Edmund F. O'Connor Eberhard F. M. Rees Hermann K. Weidner Robert F. Thompson John J. Williams Maj. Gen. Vincent G. Huston (USAF)
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 John R. Casani M. P. Frank Robert A. Parker
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 Robert C. Baumann Paul C. Donnelly Albert G. Ferris James J. Kramer Charles T. Newman Joseph E. Robbins Miles Ross Michael J. Vaccaro
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 John R. Casani Robert S. Kraemer
1984 Dale L. Compton H. Robert Lynn"TDRS Awards Ceremony Held." Goddard News Dec. 1984: 5. Print Richard Sade Robert E. Spearing
1992 Marshall E. Alper A. Thomas Young
1994 Alphonso V. Diaz
2000
Eileen M. Collins Kevin L. Petersen Eugene Tu
2006 Joel S. Levine
2007
Michael Gazarik Susan Gorton Ajay Kumar Laurence Leavitt Brenton Weathered
2009 Christian L. Hardcastle
2010 Kenneth M. Ford
2011 Julie A. Robinson (biologist)
2012 Christa Peters-Lidard Anne R. Douglass Jason P. Dworkin
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
See also List of NASA awards
References
External links NASA awards National Aeronautics and Space Administration Honor Awards (1969–1978)