2005 NASA Engineering and Safety Center Honor Awards
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.
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.
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.
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.