The NSS Board of Governors provides recommendations and guidance to the Board of Directors with respect to the broad, overall policies, objectives, and goals of the Society. This volunteer Board is composed of outstanding individuals in the fields of science, engineering, the arts, government, the press, business, law, medicine, and other professions and occupations, and individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the Society or its goals.
Karlton Johnson, Chairman
- Mark Albrecht
- Buzz Aldrin
- Eric Anderson
- Norman R. Augustine
- Lance Bass
- Howard Bloom
- Bruce Boxleitner
- Dan Brandenstein
- Tom Cruise
- George Dietrich
- K. Eric Drexler
- Arthur M. Dula
- Don Fuqua
- Newt Gingrich
- Jeff Greason
- Harry Hamlin
- Tom Hanks
- Tanya Harrison
- Janet Ivey
- Mark Jannot
- Edwin Jones
- Lon Levin
- John S. Lewis
- James Lovell
- Geoffrey Notkin
- Glenn Reynolds
- Henk Rogers
- Martine Rothblatt
- Harrison Schmitt
- Michael Simpson
- Anthony Tether
- Stephen Trimberger
- Maria von Braun
- Simon “Pete” Worden
Some Past Members of the NSS Board of Governors
Hugh Downs (1921-2020), Chairman Emeritus
- Isaac Asimov
- Frank Borman
- Ben Bova
- George E. Brown, Jr.
- Sir Arthur C. Clarke
- Jacques Cousteau
- Michael DeBakey
- John Denver
- Freeman Dyson
- Edward R. Finch
- Peter Glaser
- John Glenn
- Barry Goldwater
- Bob Hope
- Barbara Marx Hubbard
- Robert Jastrow
- John H. Johnson
- Arthur Kantrowitz
- Robert McCall
- Marvin Minsky
- Kenneth Money
- Frank Moss
- Nichelle Nichols
- Hermann Oberth
- Jack Olson
- Frederick I. Ordway III
- Melvin M. Payne
- Majel Barrett Roddenberry
- Neil P. Ruzic
- Frederick Seitz
- Alan B. Shepard
- Donald K. Slayton
- Louis Szathmary
- James A. Van Allen
- Glen P. Wilson
- Gordon Woodcock