2004 NASA Engineering and Safety Center Honor Awards
The first NESC Honor Awards were presented at the Leadership Briefing on May 12, 2004, at NASA Headquarters. NESC Director Ralph R. Roe, Jr., and Chief Safety and Mission Assurance Officer Bryan D. O’Connor gave opening remarks. Space Shuttle Commander Eileen Collins and STS-114 Mission Specialist Charles Camarda presented awards to the following individuals:NESC Director’s Award Mr. Richard M. Wood, LaRCHonored for personal commitment to advocating further assessment of the aerodynamic risks associated with the flight of the modified Pegasus/X-43A launch vehicle.
NESC Director’s Award
Mr. Richard M. Wood
(Langley Research Center) Honored for personal commitment to advocating further assessment of the aerodynamic risks associated with the flight of the modified Pegasus/X-43A launch vehicle.
Mr. Erwin V. Zaretsky
(Glenn Research Center) Honored for exemplary contributions and personal leadership in advocating further inspection and testing of the Space Shuttle Orbiter Rudder/Speed Brake actuators.
NESC Engineering Excellence Award
Mr. Timothy R. Jett
(Marshall Space Flight Center) Honored for extraordinary leadership that contributed to engineering excellence in support of the Rudder/Speed Brake Independent Assessment Team.
NESC Leadership Award
Mr. Luat T. Nguyen
(Langley Research Center) Honored for exceptional leadership in responding to a dissenting opinion regarding the modified Pegasus/X-43A launch vehicle aerodynamics.
Dr. Michael G. Ryschkewitsch
(Goddard Space Flight Center) Honored for exceptional leadership in promoting an environment wherein technical concerns are brought forward and appropriately addressed.
A second NESC Honor Awards ceremony took place on October 26, 2004, at the fall NESC Conference in Los Angeles, California. NESC Director Ralph Roe, Jr., and NESC Chief Astronaut Jerry Ross presented awards to the following individuals:
NESC Director’s Award
Mr. Michael Massie (The Boeing Company ) Honored for exemplary contributions and technical rationale for corrective action on the Space Shuttle’s zero fault tolerant Reaction Jet Driver design. Dr. Jeffrey D. Scargle (Ames Research Center) Honored for exceptional contributions in support of the statistical analysis of the external tank foam dissection data.
NESC Engineering Excellence Award
Mr. Phillip B. Hall
(Marshall Space Flight Center) Honored for extraordinary leadership that contributed to engineering excellence on the Orbiter Rudder/Speed Brake and Body Flap Actuator Team.
Dr. Paul M. Munafo
(Marshall Space Flight Center) Honored for outstanding direction, technical leadership, and engineering excellence regarding the Orbiter Rudder/Speed Brake System.
Dr. Robert S. Piascik
(Langley Research Center) Honored for engineering excellence in providing inspection methods and determining the root cause of original cracks in the Orbiter liquid hydrogen feedline flowliners.