Craig E. Steidle

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Craig E. Steidle
Navy Commendation Medal[1]

Rear Admiral Craig Eugene Steidle,

U.S. Naval Academy.[5]

During his tenure with the

F-35 Lightning II. Admiral Steidle also commanded the Navy's F/A-18 program, the naval aviation's largest production research and development program, as well as the largest foreign military sales program.[6]

Navy career

Official U.S. Navy portrait as a rear admiral

Admiral Steidle joined the Navy after he graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland in 1968.[6] In the Navy, he trained to become an attack pilot and flew carrier night combat missions over North Vietnam. In the 1980s he deployed on carriers, frigates, and cruisers in the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean.[7] Steidle went on to command the Navy's F/A-18 program, and then became the director of the DOD Joint Advanced Strike Technology Office.[1] The admiral opted to retire from the Navy in March 2000.[6]

Post-Navy Career

After retiring from the Navy, Craig Steidle worked as a self-employed aerospace consultant.

Apollo Moon missions which occurred from 1968 to 1972.[1] The Centennial Challenges prize program was also implemented by the Office of Exploration Systems during this time.[8] The office was renamed the Exploration Systems Directorate in an August 2004 restructuring.[1] Admiral Steidle officially resigned from the position of associate administrator for exploration systems in June 2005.[9] He served as a visiting professor in aerospace engineering at the U.S. Naval Academy for five years and then briefly as the president of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation before fully retiring in 2011.[5]

Education

Craig Steidle grew up in Huntington, Long Island, New York, and attended the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, where he graduated with merit in 1968.[7] Later, Steidle went to the University of Southern California and earned a Master of Science degree in systems management.[6] He also attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University where he earned a Master of Science degree in aerospace engineering.[1] Admiral Steidle was a distinguished graduate from the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School in June 1976.

Personal

Admiral Steidle resides in Southern Maine. His daughter, Gretchen Ki Steidle is the founder of Global Grassroots (www.globalgrassroots.org), a nonprofit which assists marginalized women in Rwanda and

Darfur Conflict and wrote a book with his sister about his experiences, The Devil Came on Horseback, which was turned into a documentary film of the same name that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival
in 2007. Steidle's youngest son, Eric Steidle, USNA '04, is a commander in the US Naval Reserves.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "NASA - Rear Adm. Craig E. Steidle, USN (Ret.)". NASA. May 20, 2004. Retrieved April 6, 2011.
  2. ^ "PN63-2 — Navy". US Congress. August 6, 1993. Retrieved July 14, 2019.
  3. ^ "Navy Register: December 31, 1970" (PDF). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1972. p. 234. Retrieved June 27, 2021.
  4. ^ a b "Who's Who at NASA - Craig E. Steidle". NASA Tech Briefs. July 2004. Archived from the original on August 23, 2011. Retrieved April 6, 2011.
  5. ^ a b "USNA - Aerospace Engineering - Faculty". US Naval Academy. March 15, 2011. Retrieved April 6, 2011.
  6. ^ a b c d e Sietzen, Frank (February 2005). "With Adm. Craig E. Steidle" (PDF). Aerospace America. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 15, 2011. Retrieved April 6, 2011.
  7. ^ a b Gugliotta, Guy (December 15, 2004). "NASA's Future Is Rising From 'the Swamp'". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 6, 2011.
  8. ^ Berger, Brian (July 25, 2004). "Financial Request for NASA's Centennial Challenge Goes Back to Congress". Space.com. Retrieved April 6, 2011.
  9. ^ "NASA Exploration Systems Associate Administrator Craig Steidle Officially Resigns". Space Ref. June 13, 2005. Retrieved April 6, 2011.
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