Honoree Award

This award recognizes employees for their dedication to quality work, flight safety, and mission success. To qualify, the individual must have contributed beyond  normal work requirements to achieve significant impact on attaining a particular human spaceflight program goal; contributed to a major cost savings; been instrumental in developing modification to hardware, software, or materials that increase reliability, efficiency, or performance; assisted in operational improvements; or been a key player in developing a beneficial process improvement.  

ELIGIBILITY 

Full-time NASA and contractor employees are eligible to receive the SFA Honoree Award. This award should not be used as recognition for longevity, retirement, or separation from service. Only recent work (within the last three years) will be considered. The SFA Honoree Award can only be presented once to an individual. This award is not intended for managers at the GS-14/15 supervisory level and above or equivalent levels within industry (second-level supervisors). The SFA Program Manager must approve any exceptions to this rule.

CRITERIA

The nominated individual must meet at least one of the following criteria: 

1. Significantly contributed beyond normal work requirements to the development and implementation of human spaceflight programs 
2. Accomplished a single specific achievement which contributed toward attaining a particular human spaceflight program goal 
3. Provided exemplary support to robotic missions that support human spaceflight 
4. Contributed to one or more major cost savings/cost avoidance pertaining directly to human spaceflight programs 
5. Instrumental in developing hardware, software, materials, processes, or operational improvements that increase reliability, efficiency, or performance 
6. Developed a process improvement of significant magnitude 

RECOGNITION

The award consists of: 

1. Congratulatory letter from senior management 
2. SFA Honoree Award certificate 
3. Honoree lapel pin 
4. Desktop award 
5. Recognition at a major program event and a VIP tour of a space facility