NASA Leaders and Flight Directors

(February 28, 1924, July 22, 2019) was an American aerospace and NASA engineer who was instrumental in establishing the agency's Mission Control Center and shaping its organization and culture.

He was the second administrator of NASA from February 14, 1961, to October 7, 1968.

Eugene Francis Kranz (born August 17, 1933) is an American aerospace engineer who served as NASA's second Chief Flight Director, directing missions of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs, including the first lunar landing mission, Apollo 11.

George Edwin Mueller (; July 16, 1918, October 12, 2015), was an American electrical engineer who was an associate administrator at NASA, heading the Office of Manned Space Flight from September 1963 until December 1969.

Thomas Keith Glennan (September 8, 1905, April 11, 1995) was the first administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, serving from August 19, 1958, to January 20, 1961.

James Chipman Fletcher (June 5, 1919, December 22, 1991) served as the 4th and 7th administrator of NASA, first from April 27, 1971, to May 1, 1977, under presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, and again from May 12, 1986, to April 8, 1989, under presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.

George Michael Low (born Georg Michael Löw; June 10, 1926, July 17, 1984) was an administrator at NASA and the 14th president of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

He served as the deputy administrator of NASA from August 19, 1958, until his death.

Army officer and NASA official.

Kurt Heinrich Debus (November 29, 1908, October 10, 1983) was a German-American rocket engineer and NASA director.

Robert Rowe Gilruth (October 8, 1913, August 17, 2000) was an American aerospace engineer and an aviation/space pioneer who was the first director of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center, later renamed the Lyndon B.

JoAnn Hardin Morgan (born December 4, 1940) is an American aerospace engineer who was the first female engineer at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) John F.

William Hayward Pickering (24 December 1910-15 March 2004) was a New Zealand aerospace engineer who headed Pasadena, California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for 22 years, retiring in 1976.

He was a longtime manager at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA).

Samuel Cochran Phillips (19 February 1921-31 January 1990) was a United States Air Force general who served as Director of NASA's Apollo program from 1964 to 1969, as commander of the Space and Missile Systems Organization (SAMSO) from 1969 to 1972, as the seventh Director of the National Security Agency from 1972 to 1973, and as commander of the Air Force Systems Command from 1973 to 1975.

(March 11, 1915, July 18, 1983) was an American mathematics professor and author who became a powerful United States government science administrator-eventually rising to the number three position at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Eberhard Friedrich Michael Rees (April 28, 1908, April 2, 1998) was a German-American (by becoming a naturalized citizen of the United States) rocketry pioneer and the second director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.