NASA Space Flight Awareness Program Recognizes Pennsylvania Native

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Jun 24, 2011, 06:19 ET

WASHINGTON, June 24, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Space Flight Awareness Program recently recognized John Brinkman of Imperial, Pa., for his outstanding support of human spaceflight. Brinkman is a safety engineer at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland and works for ARES Corp.

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Brinkman organized and led a successful ground safety review for the Communications, Navigation, and Networking re-Configurable Test Bed (CoNNeCT) project. The review was held in August 2010 at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Tsukuba Space Center in Tsukuba, Japan. With the project operating under tight schedule constraints, the review was critical to its success. Brinkman's professional demeanor and superior performance during the process was commended by project personnel and JAXA's ground safety panel.

NASA's Space Flight Awareness Program recognizes outstanding job performances and contributions by civil service and contract employees throughout the year. It focuses on excellence in quality and safety in support of human spaceflight.

The Honoree Award is one of the highest honors presented to NASA employees for their dedication to quality work and flight safety. Recipients must have contributed beyond their normal work requirements toward achieving a particular human spaceflight program goal; contributed to a major cost savings; been instrumental in developing material that increases reliability, efficiency or performance; assisted in operational improvements; or been a key player in developing a beneficial process improvement.

To read more about the program and download a picture of Brinkman, visit:

http://sfa.nasa.gov/STS135RolloutHonorees.cfm

For information about NASA and agency programs, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov

SOURCE NASA