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Space Flight Awareness
Four Glenn Space Flight Awareness (SFA) Honorees were among the VIPs invited to attend the Atlantis STS–117 launch on June 8. They are recipients of the highest tribute paid by NASA to individuals in the agency, Department of Defense and industry. A trip to Kennedy Space Center for a launch is part of their reward for dedication to quality work and flight safety, which also includes a reception in their honor and the opportunity to meet with top NASA and industry officials and members of the Astronaut Corps.
The following honorees were recognized during a special reception at NASA Kennedy:
Robert Detamore, Mechanical Design Branch, for dedication and leadership as the lead designer in the design development and timely delivery of drawings to manufacture the Return to Flight LO2 Cable Tray test hardware.
Images right: Detamore, top photo, and Denniston, bottom photo, accept their SFA plaques presented by Associate Administrator, Exploration Systems Mission Directorate Scott Horowitz and Astronaut Anne Lee Fisher. Credit: NASA JSC
Charles Denniston, Applied Structural Mechanics Branch, for dedication and leadership as lead structures engineer overseeing all the major reviews of hardware developed for the International Space Station's Fluid and Combustion Facility project.
Two honorees were unable to attend the NASA Kennedy festivities. They include:
Dr. Geoffrey Landis, Photovoltaics and Power Technologies Branch, for exemplary work in support of the International Space Station Program by inventing a new mode of operation of solar arrays to reduce propellant requirements.
Dr. Elizabeth Opila, Durability and Protective Coatings Branch, for outstanding technical contributions to the Space Shuttle Program and Return to Flight research and development activities, which include wing leading-edge deposit analyses and experimental studies to identify the breach location and temperature conditions; and computational and experimental studies of NASA's leading small patch repair, NOAX material, development and evaluation.
Suggestion Awards
Glenn recently rewarded the ingenuity of four employees whose ideas were adopted under the Employee Suggestion Award Program. The program allows cash awards, up to $7500, paid to employees who submit suggestions that directly improve efficiency, economy and/or effective execution of Government operations.
The following employees recently received an award for their suggestions:
Image right: left to right, Haeberle, Cotleur, Hudson and Juhas. Credit: NASA/Michelle Murphy
Arlette Haeberle, Aviation Environments Technical Branch.
Subject of suggestion: Institute Calibration of IRT (Icing Research Tunnel) Transducers. Haeberle proposed using the Ice tunnel Ruska, a calibrated pressure standard, to calibrate all the spray bar water and air transducers, in place and at one time, to reduce the handling of the transducers and chance of damage. This increased the accuracy of the transducers and their entire system and decreased the work hours needed in removal, installation and data base entry time.
Deborah Cotleur and Avis Hudson, Office of Equal Opportunity Programs.
Subject of suggestion: CD for Recruiters/Speakers. Cotleur and Hudson suggested that a CD providing a preferred agency and/or center overview be enclosed in all recruiter folders. The CD would enable delivery of a unified message despite differences in the technical knowledge of recruiters at job fairs and workshops. It should also be available for presentations given to co-op, summer interns and Speakers Bureau audiences.
John Juhas, R&D Labs Technical Branch.
Subject of suggestion: Laser Aiming Device for Small Impact Gun. Juhas designed and built a laser alignment fixture that would allow precise location of the gun barrel for impact on test specimens without the need for pre-test alignment shots. The new fixture saves work hours, eliminates waste of expensive samples and more importantly, provides better data.
The Employee Suggestion Award Committee is eager to reward employees for a possibly great idea. To learn tips and guidelines for submitting ideas vist http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/OHR/Suggestion
American Helicopter Society Best Paper
Jonathan Litt and Donald Simon (Army), Control and Dynamics Branch, are coauthors of the paper, "Toward a Real-Time Measurement-Based System for Estimation of Helicopter Engine Degradation Due to Compressor Erosion," which was selected the Health Usage and Monitoring System Best Paper at the American Helicopter Society Forum 63. The paper describes an online approach to estimating the efficiency loss of a turboshaft engine's compressor due to sand erosion. The work was funded with an Army Research Laboratory Director's Research Initiative grant supporting the Subsonic Rotary Wing project under NASA's Fundamental Aeronautics program.
NASA College Scholarship Winner
Jonathan Krause, who recently graduated from Strongsville High School, won a 2007 NASA College Scholarship. Krause, son of Glenn employee David Krause, Mechanics and Life Prediction Branch, is one of six recipients selected agencywide. The scholarships, established in 1982 by noted Pulitzer Prize winning author James A. Michener, promotes careers in science and engineering and provides qualified dependents of current and former NASA employees majoring in these required fields a total of $8,000 within a six-year period. Krause counts among his many accomplishments the AP (Associated Press) Scholar with Distinction, Ohio Math League State Champion, Ohio High School Math Olympiad Qualifier and National Merit Finalist and Scholar. He will attend California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif., this fall, where he will major in computer science and mathematics, with specific interests in software development, data modeling and cryptanalysis.
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Space Flight Awareness
Four Glenn Space Flight Awareness (SFA) Honorees were among the VIPs invited to attend the Atlantis STS–117 launch on June 8. They are recipients of the highest tribute paid by NASA to individuals in the agency, Department of Defense and industry. A trip to Kennedy Space Center for a launch is part of their reward for dedication to quality work and flight safety, which also includes a reception in their honor and the opportunity to meet with top NASA and industry officials and members of the Astronaut Corps.
The following honorees were recognized during a special reception at NASA Kennedy:
Robert Detamore, Mechanical Design Branch, for dedication and leadership as the lead designer in the design development and timely delivery of drawings to manufacture the Return to Flight LO2 Cable Tray test hardware.
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Charles Denniston, Applied Structural Mechanics Branch, for dedication and leadership as lead structures engineer overseeing all the major reviews of hardware developed for the International Space Station's Fluid and Combustion Facility project.
Two honorees were unable to attend the NASA Kennedy festivities. They include:
Dr. Geoffrey Landis, Photovoltaics and Power Technologies Branch, for exemplary work in support of the International Space Station Program by inventing a new mode of operation of solar arrays to reduce propellant requirements.
Dr. Elizabeth Opila, Durability and Protective Coatings Branch, for outstanding technical contributions to the Space Shuttle Program and Return to Flight research and development activities, which include wing leading-edge deposit analyses and experimental studies to identify the breach location and temperature conditions; and computational and experimental studies of NASA's leading small patch repair, NOAX material, development and evaluation.
Suggestion Awards
Glenn recently rewarded the ingenuity of four employees whose ideas were adopted under the Employee Suggestion Award Program. The program allows cash awards, up to $7500, paid to employees who submit suggestions that directly improve efficiency, economy and/or effective execution of Government operations.
The following employees recently received an award for their suggestions:
Image right: left to right, Haeberle, Cotleur, Hudson and Juhas. Credit: NASA/Michelle MurphyArlette Haeberle, Aviation Environments Technical Branch.
Subject of suggestion: Institute Calibration of IRT (Icing Research Tunnel) Transducers. Haeberle proposed using the Ice tunnel Ruska, a calibrated pressure standard, to calibrate all the spray bar water and air transducers, in place and at one time, to reduce the handling of the transducers and chance of damage. This increased the accuracy of the transducers and their entire system and decreased the work hours needed in removal, installation and data base entry time.
Deborah Cotleur and Avis Hudson, Office of Equal Opportunity Programs.
Subject of suggestion: CD for Recruiters/Speakers. Cotleur and Hudson suggested that a CD providing a preferred agency and/or center overview be enclosed in all recruiter folders. The CD would enable delivery of a unified message despite differences in the technical knowledge of recruiters at job fairs and workshops. It should also be available for presentations given to co-op, summer interns and Speakers Bureau audiences.
John Juhas, R&D Labs Technical Branch.
Subject of suggestion: Laser Aiming Device for Small Impact Gun. Juhas designed and built a laser alignment fixture that would allow precise location of the gun barrel for impact on test specimens without the need for pre-test alignment shots. The new fixture saves work hours, eliminates waste of expensive samples and more importantly, provides better data.
The Employee Suggestion Award Committee is eager to reward employees for a possibly great idea. To learn tips and guidelines for submitting ideas vist http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/OHR/Suggestion
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