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On February 8, 2005, Langley Center Director, Roy E. Bridges, Jr. (left) and NESC Director, Ralph R. Roe, Jr. (right) presented Richard W. Powell (center) the NESC Director’s Award for outstanding direction and technical leadership of the Cassini/Huygens Independent Technical Assessment Team.

Dr. Paul M. Munafo, Former NESC Deputy Director (far right), and his wife, Ginger (far left), view his NESC Engineering Excellence Award during an NESC Honor Award Ceremony in 2004.

NESC is proud to recognize the following 2005 Honor Award recipients.

NESC DIRECTOR'S AWARD

Dewey B. Channell (Marshall Space Flight Center) Posthumous	Honored for providing an alternate opinion, thus ensuring the T-0 interface was subjected to a rigorous technical engineering assessment.
Philip M. Deans (Johnson Space Center)	Honored for providing an alternate opinion, thus ensuring the T-0 interface was subjected to a rigorous technical engineering assessment.
Pat B. McLaughlan (Johnson Space Center)	Honored for submitting an alternate opinion regarding the safety and flight readiness of the Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessels for the Space Shuttle.
Richard W. Powell (Langley Research Center)	Honored for providing outstanding direction and technical leadership to the Cassini/Huygens Probe Entry, Descent, and Landing Independent Technical Assessment Team.
Robert J. Wingate (Marshall Space Flight Center)	Honored for providing professional integrity and perseverance for challenging the prevailing certification approach to the External Tank’s manually sprayed “fly-as-is” foam.

Tim Wilson, NESC Chief Engineer from Kennedy Space Center, accepts the NESC Group Achievement Award on behalf of the NESC Recurring Anomalies Review Team.

NESC ENGINEERING EXCELLENCE AWARD

James E. Fesmire (Kennedy Space Center)	Honored for engineering excellence leading to the successful development of the Space Shuttle External Tank Liquid Oxygen Feedline Sacrificial Retainer System.
Lorie Grimes-Ledesma (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)	Honored for engineering excellence on the NESC Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessels Assessment Team.
Dr. Michael P. Nemeth (Langley Research Center)	Honored for outstanding technical contributions in the area of structural mechanics as a member of the External Tank Independent Technical Assessment Team.
Dr. Stuart L. Phoenix (Cornell University)	Honored for engineering excellence on the NESC Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessels Assessment Team.
Dr. Eugene K. Ungar (Johnson Space Center)	Honored for outstanding technical contributions in the area of fluids/thermodynamic analysis as a member of the External Tank Assessment and NESC Flight Rationale for Expected Debris Peer Review Team.

NESC Honor Awards presented on June 7, 2005. Front row from left: Dr. Michael Nemeth (LaRC), Robert Wingate (MSFC), Pat McLaughlan (JSC), Kay Channell accepting for Dewey Channell (MSFC), Lorie Grimes-Ledesma (JPL), and Philip Deans, (JSC) Back row from left: Hank Rotter (JSC) accepting for Dr. Eugene Ungar (JSC), Ralph Roe, Jr. (NESC Director/presenter), Dr. Stuart Phoenix (Cornell University), Andreas Dibbern (KSC) accepting for JamesFesmire (KSC), and Jerry Ross (NESC Chief Astronaut/presenter).

Flowliner Independent Technical Assessment Team	Honored for exemplary contributions conducting unique engineering analyses and tests to independently assess the flowliner cracking problem.
Flowliner Inspection Team	Honored for exemplary contributions developing an edge replication method to inspect slots for surface defects and fatigue cracks.
Cassini/Huygens Probe, Entry, Descent, and Landing Independent Technical Assessment Team	Honored for exemplary contributions in the modeling of the Huygens Probe Entry, Descent, and Landing on Titan.
Composite Pressure Vessel Safety for Flight Concern Independent Technical Assessment Team	Honored for providing engineering excellence in resolving difficult technical questions related to a potentially catastrophic failure mode of Kevlar Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessels.

On February 8, 2005, Langley Research Center Director, Roy Bridges, Jr., and NESC Director, Ralph Roe, Jr., presented the NESC Group Achievement Award to the Cassini/Huygens Probe Entry, Descent, and Landing Independent Technical Assessment Team.	NESC Group Achievement Award presented by Dr. Julian M. Earls, Director of Glenn Research Center, on August 30, 2005 to members of NESC’s Recurring Anomalies Review Team and NESC’s Reaction Jet Drivers Independent Technical Assessment Team.

Management and Technical Support Office Staff Award	Honored for creating the business, administrative, and financial infrastructure for NESC.
Liquid Oxygen Feedline Bellows Ice Prevention Team	Honored for developing alternative solutions for the prevention of ice on the External Tank Liquid Oxygen Feedline Bellows.
Recurring Anomalies Review Team	Honored for the team’s efforts to independently review the Space Shuttle and International Space Station Programs’ recurring anomalies to proactively identify technical vulnerabilities.
Reaction Jet Drivers Independent Technical Assessment Team	Honored for outstanding contributions to the independent technical assessment of the Space Shuttle Orbiter Reaction Jet Driver inadvertent thruster firing hazard.

The first NESC Group Achievement Awards were presented at Langley Research Center to the Flowliner Inspection Team; team members pictured above are Scott A. Willard, William T. Howard, and John A. Newman.

Most of the Flowliner ITA Team members are pictured above. Dr. Charles E. Harris, Principal Engineer leading the team effort, presented the awards on November 14, 2004.