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William Graham

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I belive my change to be of historic importance due to the face that the biggest disaster in NASA history occured during the adminstration of William Graham.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.73.4.173 (talkcontribs) 02:20, 23 March 2007

Missing Acting Administrators

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The list of Acting Administrators is missing names as shown in this source (Dryden, Paine, Low... ). I think acting Administrators should be separated from the main list. Hektor (talk) 16:28, 19 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

out of date info

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Michael Griffin's administrator term expired on January 20, 2009, I've fixed some information relating to this but it should be re-written better when a new person fills the spot. TheJoak (talk) 21:19, 23 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Charles Bolden resigned on January 20th https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/bolden_bio.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.206.71.41 (talk) 06:26, 22 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Acting Administrators

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How come two modern acting administrators are included but not those older ones attested by NASA? If some are obmitted because they were deputies than that is inconsistent with, say, Frederick D. Gregory being listed in both. Hekerui (talk) 09:34, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The older acting administrators weren't included by myself because they weren't in the NASA list; see [1]. I assumed that NASA would provide the authoritative list (and that the office was vacant in between administrators), and hence didn't pro-actively search for additional ones; in hindsight that was an error. They've since been added to the list by NASA. [2]. Thanks Myself488 (talk · contribs) for adding them to the article. Mike Peel (talk) 14:48, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Proposal to split this list

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Back in 2008, I merged Administrator of NASA and Deputy Administrator of NASA into this list. Prompted by @I Am Chaos's recent edits, and looking back through this list, I think that was a mistake: it would be better to have separate articles for these roles. They seem to be more separate than I thought, particularly as demonstrated by the current lead that focuses on the Administrator role and ignores the Deputy part. The 'Line of succession' part is a bit odd, though - perhaps it could be duplicated in both articles, or perhaps moved to a separate article? I'm also not sure how this change would interact with the featured list process - would we just get two featured lists, or would they need to be re-approved? Thoughts? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 23:40, 8 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mike Peel (talk · contribs)! I saw your tagging me and was surprised I didn't think this edit would need much discussion, but then I logged in and saw what it was. You may have seen I just went through and cleaned up a few things that I noticed in the top section (which I hadn't been looking for on my first visit to the article).
My incoherent rambling aside, and onto your proposal; It seems that the section on NASA#Leadership is actually longer than the first two sections on this page, not that it needs to be longer. Each list is certainly long enough to have its own page. There is no information on the DA in the #Duties and responsibilities, so that would need to be created regardless. I could get a paragraph in there this week regardless of what this Proposal brings. I would propose that the Line of Succession would be left only in the Administrator article in the case of a split. Albeit interesting (at least to a nerd of procedure like myself), I don't think it is particularly applicable except for the part where deputy acts as administrator, which I would argue falls under #Duties and responsibilities moreso than a separate section. Signed, I Am Chaos (talk) 02:19, 9 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@I Am Chaos: Sorry, I didn't mean to surprise you! I've gone ahead and split the article, let's see how that falls out. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:57, 9 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Total Days of service of Administrator Fletcher seems wrong

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The addition of the days of Mr. Fletcher is wrong, it seems a copy/paste error from another administrator’s data. 2603:8001:6F00:B792:D176:CE44:2AD8:8032 (talk) 02:57, 31 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]