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 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research. NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...

. 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

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 Donald Kent "Deke" Slayton (March 1, 1924 – June 13, 1993) was a United States Air Force pilot, aeronautical engineer, and test pilot who was selected as one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts. He went on to become NASA's first ...

* Fridtjof A. H. Speer

1981

* John R. Casani

1984

* H. Robert Lynn"TDRS Awards Ceremony Held." Goddard News Dec. 1984: 5. Print * Richard Sade * Robert E. Spearing

2000

* Eileen M. Collins

2006

* Joel S. Levine

2007

* Michael Gazarik * Susan Gorton * Ajay Kumar * Laurence Leavitt * Brenton Weathered

2011

Julie A. Robinson (biologist) Julie A. Robinson is the Chief Scientist for Human Exploration and Operations at NASA and was previously Chief Scientist for the International Space Station Program for over a twelve years, with a background in both the physical and biological scie ...

2012

Christa Peters-Lidard Christa Peters-Lidard is an American hydrologist known for her work on integrating land surface modeling and data assimilation, particularly with remotely sensed measurements of precipitation. Early life Peters-Lidard grew up in Chesterfield ...

Anne R. Douglass Anne Ritger Douglass is atmospheric physicist known for her research on chlorinated compounds and the ozone layer. Education and career Douglass graduated with a B.A.in physics from Trinity, now Trinity Washington University, in 1971. She then ...