Special Local Award

This award is used to recognize local employees for their dedication to quality work and flight safety and mission success. Awardees will have the opportunity to be recognized at an award program, participate in a special program milestone event, as appropriate, and meet with top NASA and industry officials.  

CRITERIA

To meet the criteria for this award, the individual’s job performance must be oriented either directly or indirectly to human space flight safety or mission success. Potential awardees must meet one or more of the following criteria:

1. Significantly contributed beyond normal work requirements to the development and implementation of human spaceflight programs.                            
2. Accomplished a single specific achievement which contributed toward attaining a particular human spaceflight program goal.
3. Provided exemplary support to robotic missions that support human spaceflight (e.g. robotic Mars missions).
4. Contributed to one or more major cost savings/cost avoidance pertaining directly to human spaceflight programs.
5. Instrumental in developing hardware, software, materials, processes or operational improvements that increase reliability, efficiency, or performance.
6. Developed or assisted with an operational improvement that increases efficiency or performance.
7. Developed a process improvement of significant magnitude.

THE SPACE FLIGHT AWARENESS LOCAL AWARD IS NOT INTENDED FOR MANAGERS AT THE GS-14/15 SUPERVISORY LEVEL AND ABOVE OR EQUIVALENT LEVELS (SECOND-LEVEL SUPERVISORS) WITHIN INDUSTRY. THIS AWARD MAY NOT BE PRESENTED TO AN AWARDEE BUT ONCE.

Download Criteria: special_local_criteria_recognition.docx

Download SFA Awards Nomination Form: sfa_awards_nomination_form.pdf

RECOGNITION

The award consists of:

(1) Congratulatory letter from senior management;

(2) Awardee certificate;

(3) An SFA lapel pin;

(4) A special commemorative current space flight item; and

(5) Recognition at a major program event and a VIP tour of a space facility.