Eight members of Glenn’s workforce recently received NASA’s prestigious Silver Snoopy award for outstanding performance and professional dedication to human spaceflight safety or mission success. Glenn Center Director Dr. Janet Kavandi joined fellow astronaut U.S. Army Colonel, Ret. Douglas Wheelock in presenting the awards during a ceremony at the center on May 16.
NASA’s Astronaut Office awards the Silver Snoopy pin annually to less than one percent of NASA’s eligible workforce. Glenn’s 2016 Silver Snoopy recipients:
Christopher A. Gallo (Parma), who works in the Mechanical Systems Design and Integration Branch, for developing biomechanical simulation models to advance the understanding and application of exercise countermeasures for spaceflight.
Leon P. Gefert, who works in the Mission Architecture and Analysis Branch, for leadership and dedication as Orbit Mode Team scrum master to ensure successful development of the Orion Guidance, Navigation, and Control software models and overall success of the Orion human spaceflight mission.
Elizabeth L. Gray (Oberlin), an employee of Vantage Partners, LLC, supporting the Science and Space Technology Systems Branch, for constant innovation and sustained integration efforts as the Saffire International Space Station (ISS) Integration Lead on the Spacecraft Fire Safety Demonstration Project and its three payloads.
Sam W. Hussey (Hinckley), who works in the ISS and Human Health Office, for leadership as Glenn’s Exploration Medical Capability project manager providing overall system engineering oversight in developing the Medical Consumables Tracking hardware for an ISS technology demonstration.
Melissa L. McGuire (Grafton Twp.), who works in the Mission Architecture and Analysis Branch, for dedication and efficiency providing data enabling human mission designs beyond Low-Earth Orbit, both with the Asteroid Redirect Mission and the human Mars architecture.
Ross A. Miller (Hinckley), an employee of Vantage Partners, LLC, supporting the Science and Space Technology Systems Branch, for continued and sustained integration efforts as the Saffire External Integrations Lead on the Spacecraft Fire Safety Demonstration Project and its three payloads with Orbital ATK and the Cygnus vehicle.
Robert Paulin (Rocky River), who works in the Space Combustion and Materials Branch, for vast experience as a flight-certified electronics technician supporting a myriad of tests being flown on the shuttle, sounding rockets, parabolic zero-gravity flights and the ISS.
Nang T. Pham (North Ridgeville), while working in the ISS and Human Health Office, for leadership and attention to details, as the Packed Bed Reactor Experiment project manager, developing flight hardware and software for operations on the ISS to gain essential information on reactors’ behavior in microgravity.
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Jan Wittry
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