Silver Snoopy Awards Presented to Danford, Ezell, Galloway, and Mosby

Teledyne Brown employees Melinda Danford, David Ezell, Paul Galloway, and Dwight Mosby were presented the coveted Silver Snoopy awards at a reception held at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center’s Davidson Center by NASA Astronaut T.J. Creamer and Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) Director Robert Lightfoot.
   
Danford, who serves as a Change Package Manager in the Engineering Directorate, Product Management Office, was commended for her support to the vehicle systems design and integration for the Ares Launch Vehicle.  Her nominator noted that her leadership, initiative, and expertise in performing critical roles in the systems engineering configuration management (CM) processes and tasks ensured a successful product.  Danford’s efforts helped countless engineers accomplish their work and adhere to CM processes across multiple organizations in a minimal amount of time.  She is also known as the “go-to” resource for complex Change Request processing and product development and has received numerous written and verbal commendations for her work.     

From left: Astronaut Creamer, Ezell, and Lightfoot

Ezell has worked over 23 years for TBE as a materials engineer supporting space hardware development and technology development programs for Shuttle and Space Station payloads and other space flight hardware. Over the years, he has performed a variety of systems engineering functions. Considered a subject matter expert on various nondestructive methods and processes by his peers, he provided Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) support to the In-situ Fabrication and Repair Team and NDE support to MSFC for Friction Stir Weld NDE development. Ezell was also instrumental in developing the Self-Reacting Friction Stir Weld NDE Demonstration Plan used in the development of flight hardware to verify the integrity of the welds, ensuring safety of the hardware used in space flight.  He was commended for his good work on the plan by the customer.

An employee of TBE for over 22 years, Galloway is a systems/advisory engineer who is leading the efforts at TBE in support of earth science research and applications payload development for NASA MSFC.  One such project is initiating a substantive new International Space Station (ISS) capability for human-tended earth observations.  Other experience includes designing, analyzing, and managing the development of human space flight systems, scientific flight payloads, and space flight hardware systems.  He has also demonstrated an exemplary performance in payload operations as a certified Payload Rack Officer, remotely controlling the EXPRESS Racks, MELFI Rack, and the Payload Support Systems on the ISS.  Previously, he led the integration of the Window Observational Research Facility (WORF) Rack into the United States Laboratory of the ISS.

From left: Astronaut Creamer, Galloway, and Lightfoot

Mosby, a Senior Station Payload Instructor at Johnson Space Center (JSC), is a critical member of the TBE payload training team who assists in the certification of cadre members supporting real-time International Space Station operations.  He not only trains subordinate JSC payload simulation team members, but he also plans, coordinates, and tests payload interfaces with European Space Agency simulation members stationed at JSC.  Mosby is also responsible for supporting telemetry interfaces and the configuration of payload models in support of payload simulations and training – a complex task that is essential to the successful execution of simulations and data flow from JSC to MSFC.  His exceptional performance and capabilities have been noted by the Astronaut Office, NASA Civil Servants, and International Partners.

From left: Astronaut Creamer, Mosby, and Lightfoot

Each recipient was presented a pin depicting Snoopy as an astronaut that has been flown on a previous space shuttle mission.  They also received a framed certificate and a congratulatory letter personally signed by an astronaut.

The Silver Snoopy award is the astronauts’ personal award given to individuals for exemplary work and outstanding effort contributing to the success of manned spaceflight missions.  The award reflects NASA’s and the industry’s sense of responsibility and continuing concern for astronaut flight safety.  Less than one percent of the space program work force receives the award annually