Administrator of NASA

The **administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration** is the highest-ranked officials of NASA, the space agency of the United States. The Administrator serves as the senior space science adviser to the President of the United States. According to NASA, the role of the Administrator is to "lead the NASA team and manage its resources to advance the Vision for Space Exploration."

## List of administrators<span class="anchor" id="Administrators"></span>

- Status

|No.|Portrait|Name|Took office|Left office|Days served|colspan="2"|President|||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||T. Keith Glennan|August 19, 1958|January 20, 1961||style="background: ;"|||Dwight D. Eisenhower|||||||
|style="background:#E6E6AA;"|-|style="background:#E6E6AA;"||style="background:#E6E6AA;"|Hugh Dryden|style="background:#E6E6AA;"|January 11, 1961|style="background:#E6E6AA;"|February 14, 1961|style="background:#E6E6AA;"||rowspan="2" style="background: ;"||rowspan="2"|John F. Kennedy|
|rowspan="2"|2|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|James E. Webb|rowspan="2"|February 14, 1961|rowspan="2"|October 7, 1968|||||||
||rowspan="2" style="background: ;"||rowspan="2"|Lyndon B. Johnson||||||||||||
|rowspan="3"|3|rowspan="3"||rowspan="3"|Thomas O. Paine|rowspan="2" style="background: #E6E6AA;"|October 8, 1968|rowspan="2" style="background: #E6E6AA;"|March 21, 1969|style="background: #E6E6AA;"||||||
|style="background: #E6E6AA;"||rowspan="4" style="background: ;"||rowspan="4"|Richard Nixon|||||||||||
|March 21, 1969|September 15, 1970|||||||||||||||
|style="background: #E6E6AA;"|-|style="background: #E6E6AA;"||style="background: #E6E6AA;"|George Low|style="background: #E6E6AA;"|September 16, 1970|style="background: #E6E6AA;"|April 26, 1971|style="background: #E6E6AA;"||||||
|rowspan="3"|4|rowspan="3"||rowspan="3"|James C. Fletcher|rowspan="3"|April 27, 1971|rowspan="3"|May 1, 1977|||||||
||style="background: ;"||Gerald Ford|||||||||||||
||rowspan="3" style="background: ;"||rowspan="3"|Jimmy Carter||||||||||||
|style="background: #E6E6AA;"|-|style="background: #E6E6AA;"||style="background: #E6E6AA;"|Alan M. Lovelace|style="background: #E6E6AA;"|May 2, 1977|style="background: #E6E6AA;"|June 20, 1977|style="background: #E6E6AA;"||||||
|5||Robert A. Frosch|June 21, 1977|January 20, 1981||||||||||||
|style="background: #E6E6AA;"|-|style="background: #E6E6AA;"||style="background: #E6E6AA;"|Alan M. Lovelace|style="background: #E6E6AA;"|January 21, 1981|style="background: #E6E6AA;"|July 10, 1981|style="background: #E6E6AA;"|<small>(220 total)</small>|rowspan="4" style="background: ;"||rowspan="4"|Ronald Reagan|
|6||James M. Beggs|July 10, 1981|December 4, 1985||||||||||||
|style="background: #E6E6AA;"|-|style="background: #E6E6AA;"||style="background: #E6E6AA;"|William Graham|style="background: #E6E6AA;"|December 4, 1985|style="background: #E6E6AA;"|May 11, 1986|style="background: #E6E6AA;"||||||
|rowspan="2"|7|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|James C. Fletcher|rowspan="2"|May 12, 1986|rowspan="2"|April 8, 1989|||||||
|<small>(3258 total)</small>|rowspan="5" style="background: ;"||rowspan="5"|George H. W. Bush||||||||||||
|style="background: #E6E6AA;"|-|style="background: #E6E6AA;"||style="background: #E6E6AA;"|Dale D. Myers|style="background: #E6E6AA;"|April 8, 1989|style="background: #E6E6AA;"|May 13, 1989|style="background: #E6E6AA;"||||||
|rowspan="2"|8|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Richard H. Truly|style="background: #E6E6AA;"|May 14, 1989|style="background: #E6E6AA;"|June 30, 1989|style="background: #E6E6AA;"||||||
|July 1, 1989|March 31, 1992|||||||||||||||
|rowspan="3"|9|rowspan="3"||rowspan="3"|Daniel Goldin|rowspan="3"|April 1, 1992|rowspan="3"|November 17, 2001|||||||
||style="background: ;"||Bill Clinton|||||||||||||
|<small>( total)</small>|rowspan="5" style="background: ;"||rowspan="5"|George W. Bush||||||||||||
|style="background: #E6E6AA;"|-|style="background: #E6E6AA;"||style="background: #E6E6AA;"|Daniel Mulville|style="background: #E6E6AA;"|November 19, 2001|style="background: #E6E6AA;"|December 21, 2001|style="background: #E6E6AA;"||||||
|10||Sean O'Keefe|December 21, 2001|February 11, 2005||||||||||||
|style="background: #E6E6AA;"|-|style="background: #E6E6AA;"||style="background: #E6E6AA;"|Frederick D. Gregory|style="background: #E6E6AA;"|February 11, 2005|style="background: #E6E6AA;"|April 14, 2005|style="background: #E6E6AA;"||||||
|11||Michael D. Griffin|April 14, 2005|January 20, 2009||||||||||||
|style="background: #E6E6AA;"|-|style="background: #E6E6AA;"||style="background: #E6E6AA;"|Christopher Scolese|style="background: #E6E6AA;"|January 20, 2009|style="background: #E6E6AA;"|July 17, 2009|style="background: #E6E6AA;"||rowspan="2" style="background: ;"||rowspan="2"|Barack Obama|
|12||Charles Bolden|July 17, 2009|January 20, 2017||||||||||||
|style="background: #E6E6AA;"|-|style="background: #E6E6AA;"||style="background: #E6E6AA;"|Robert M. Lightfoot Jr.|style="background: #E6E6AA;"|January 20, 2017|style="background: #E6E6AA;"|April 23, 2018|style="background: #E6E6AA;"||rowspan="2" style="background: ;"||rowspan="2"|Donald Trump|
|13||Jim Bridenstine|April 23, 2018|January 20, 2021||||||||||||
|style="background: #E6E6AA;"|-|style="background: #E6E6AA;"||style="background: #E6E6AA;"|Steve Jurczyk|style="background: #E6E6AA;"|January 20, 2021|style="background: #E6E6AA;"|May 3, 2021|style="background: #E6E6AA;"||rowspan="2" style="background: ;"||rowspan="2"|Joe Biden|
|14||Bill Nelson|May 3, 2021|January 20, 2025||||||||||||
|style="background: #E6E6AA;"|-|style="background: #E6E6AA;"||style="background: #E6E6AA;"|Janet Petro|style="background: #E6E6AA;"|January 20, 2025|style="background: #E6E6AA;"|July 9, 2025|style="background: #E6E6AA;"||rowspan="3" style="background: ;"||rowspan="3"|Donald Trump|
|style="background: #E6E6AA;"|-|style="background: #E6E6AA;"||style="background: #E6E6AA;"|Sean Duffy|style="background: #E6E6AA;"|July 9, 2025|style="background: #E6E6AA;"|December 18, 2025|style="background: #E6E6AA;"||||||
|15||Jared Isaacman|December 18, 2025|_Incumbent_||||||||||||

## Infobox (political post)

- **post**: Administrator
- **body**: the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- **insignia**: NASA seal.svg
- **insigniasize**: 150
- **insigniacaption**: NASA Seal
Constituent part of the administrator's standard
- **image**: Jared isaacman official portrait.jpg
- **alt**: Jared Isaacman
- **incumbent**: Jared Isaacman
- **incumbentsince**: December 18, 2025
- **reports to**: President of the United States, President
- **nominator**: President of the United States, President with Senate advice and consent
- **termlength**: At the pleasure of the President of the United States, president
- **inaugural**: T. Keith Glennan, Thomas Keith Glennan
- **salary**: $221,900 annually
 (Executive Schedule, Executive Schedule II)
- **seat**: Washington, D.C.
- **website**: [https://www.nasa.gov/people/janet-e-petro Janet Petro, NASA]