2017 NASA Engineering and Safety Center Honor Awards

NESC Directors Award

Christopher B. Kostyk

In recognition of persistence and extraordinary attention to detail in personally assessing and correcting the redactions to the voluminous commercial crew program frangible joint final technical report, thus averting the release of commercial crew partner proprietary data

NESC Leadership Award

Bruce A. Davis

In recognition of outstanding leadership in coordinating the NASA Engineering and Safety Center’s hypervelocity impact testing for the Micrometeoroid and Orbital Debris Pressure Vessel Failure Criteria Assessment

Dwayne R. Morgan

In recognition of outstanding engineering leadership in support to the NASA Engineering and Safety Center’s Commercial Crew Program Avionics Architecture Review Assessment

Michelle T. Rudd

In recognition of outstanding execution of the NASA Engineering and Safety Center’s Shell Buckling Knockdown Factor Project 8-ft diameter seamless metallic barrel buckling test

Omar Torres

In recognition of outstanding technical leadership as the Guidance Navigation and Control co-lead of the NASA Engineering and Safety Center’s Commercial Crew Program Avionics Architecture Review Assessment

Karen J. Weiland

In recognition of exceptional leadership in the planning and implementation of the NASA Model-Based Systems Engineering pathfinder

NESC Engineering Excellence Award

Mark Balas

In recognition of engineering excellence to the NASA Engineering and Safety Center’s stability assessment of the Space Launch System Flight Control System

Joe B. Blondin

In recognition of engineering excellence to the Hubble Space Telescope Gyroscope Anomaly and Reliability Investigation in support of the NASA Engineering and Safety Center’s elevated motor current investigation

Yuan Chen

In recognition of engineering excellence to the NASA Engineering and Safety Center in establishing approaches and guidelines regarding the use of commercial off the shelf Electrical, Electronic and Electromagnetic parts for the Commercial Crew Program and other NASA flight programs

Raymond L. Ladbury

In recognition of engineering excellence to the NASA Engineering and Safety Center’s Avionics Electrical, Electronic and Electromagnetic parts radiation guideline activities for the Commercial Crew Program and other NASA space flight programs

Christopher M. Matty

In recognition of engineering excellence for analysis of the F/A-18 Environmental Control System in support of the NASA Engineering and Safety Center’s Physiological Episode Assessment Team

Marc A. Sarrel

In recognition of engineering excellence in support of the NASA Engineering and Safety Center’s  Exploration Systems Development and Commercial Crew Program Verification and Validation Assessments

Marta B. Shelton

In recognition of engineering excellence for data and analysis support of the NASA Engineering and Safety Center’s F/A-18 Physiological Episode Assessment for the United States Navy

Jonathan M. Tylka

In recognition of engineering excellence in support of the NASA Engineering and Safety Center’s Additively Manufactured Metals in Oxygen Systems task

NESC Administrative Excellence Award

Simone E. Hurley

In recognition of outstanding human resource support to the NASA Engineering and Safety Center

NESC Group Achievement Award

Commercial Crew Program Avionics Architecture Review Team

In recognition of outstanding engineering excellence and leadership to the NASA Engineering and Safety Center’s Commercial Crew Program Avionics Architecture Review Assessment (award accepted by Peter B. Berg on behalf of the team)

Cross Program Verification and Validation Integration and Mapping Assessment Team

In recognition of outstanding technical achievement in support of the NASA Engineering and Safety Center’s Exploration Systems Development Cross Program Verification and Validation Integration and Mapping Assessment (award accepted by Daniel K. Hicks on behalf of the team)

Evaluation of Micrometeoroid and Orbital Debris Risk Predictions with Available On-Orbit Assets Team

In recognition of the effort to compare spacecraft risk to recorded failures in order to evaluate NASA’s micrometeoroid and orbital debris risk assessment process (award accepted by Darren McKnight on behalf of the team)

Model Based Systems Engineering Pathfinder Team

In recognition of exceptional innovation and passion in the pursuit of modernizing NASA’s Systems Engineering capacity via model based systems engineering (award accepted by Jessica R. Knizhnik on behalf of the team)