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John C. Stennis Space Center
(228) 688-3341 Aug. 12, 2004
Stennis Space Center, MS 39529-6000
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BRUCE AWARDED NASA EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE MEDAL HANCOCK COUNTY, Miss. – Robert C. Bruce Jr., a NASA employee at Stennis Space Center (SSC) near Bay St. Louis, today has been awarded NASA’s prestigious Exceptional Service Medal.
The NASA Exceptional Service Medal is given for significant sustained performance characterized by unusual initiative or creative ability that clearly demonstrates improvements in engineering, aeronautics, space flight, administration, support or space-related endeavors which contribute to NASA’s mission.
SSC Center Director Adm. Thomas Q. Donaldson V (USN, Ret.) and NASA Associate Administrator of the Space Operations Mission Directorate William F. Readdy presented the medal to Bruce.
Bruce, a resident of Gulfport, is the director of the Technology Development and Transfer Office at SSC. He was given the award for using his propulsion engineering expertise in promoting the propulsion testing capabilities at SSC, as well as leveraging the testing capabilities at other NASA centers through the Rocket Propulsion Test Management Board. Bruce welded a number of
organizations at SSC into a technology development and transfer group. He initiated a technology forecast activity, and developed a new technology road map for each of SSC’s major programs.
Bruce used his propulsion background to spearhead the development of a “Test Stand of the Future” concept, which allows various sources of research and technology development funding to underwrite the acquisition and development of this needed technology. He has been appointed one of three people who will help develop a strategy to shape the future of technology transfer in NASA.
SSC, America’s largest rocket test complex, is NASA’s program manager for rocket propulsion testing and home to NASA’s Earth Science Applications Directorate.
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