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 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 1984 H. Robert Lynn 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) 2012 Christa Peters-Lidard Anne R. Douglass 2021 Wesley W. Deadrick See also List of NASA awards References External links NASA awards National Aeronautics and Space Administration Honor Awards (1969–1978) Outstanding Leadership Medal