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Nov. 9, 2001

John F. Kennedy Space Center

Spaceport Newshttp://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/snews/snewstoc.htm

Vol. 40, No. 23

Pages 4-5 – Spaceport Newsgoes inside the MPLM.

Page 8 – STS-2 launched 20years ago.

Page 3 – Automateddefibrillators to help save liveson Center.

Page 2 – Workers honored in“Recognizing Our People.”

Page 6 – USA reducesdeviations by 65 percent.

(See BASE, Page 3)

Inside

Kennedy Space Center lenttremendous support to the areacommunity during United Way’sDays of Caring/Make A DifferenceDay Event Oct. 26 and 27.

NASA and contractor employeesworked at various locations inBrevard County, including BaxleyManor, Spacecoast Center forIndependent Living, the Child CareAssociation and PREVENT! OfBrevard.

“We had an outpouring ofvolunteerism this year. It was veryinspiring,” said Celene Morgan,NASA community relationscoordinator for the event. “Ourvolunteer numbers were up about20 percent.”

KSC leaders believe the event isa great way to provide employeeswith an increased awareness of theneeds of the Brevard communitywhile at the same time showing thelocal community that the work forceat KSC cares.

Local community members arevery supportive of the space

KSC reaches out for Days of Caring

program and KSC team memberswant them to know that KSC isvery concerned about the commu-nity they live, work and play in,Morgan said.

Aneta Ott, NASA programtraining coordinator, was one of the111 NASA employees who volun-teered for Days of Caring this year.

She participated in the event sixyears ago at Baxley Manor andsince then has made once-a-monthtrips to the nursing home to bringfood and paper product donationsto its residents.

“When you see the excitement inthe faces of the people you arereaching out to, that’s the greatest

reward you could ever receive,” Ottsaid. “It makes you want to domore.”

Ott, who enlists her coworkers tosupport her Baxley Manor efforts,was recently honored with a YouMake a Difference Award.

KSC employees typicallyaccount for a large percentage ofDays of Caring volunteers.

Before the event, a letter from theCenter Director goes out to allNASA employees asking for theirsupport. Some organizations makea decision to work as a team andothers choose to do whatever theywould like to do individually.

Contractor groups organize theirown participation.

“Our community counts on thewonderful folks at KSC each andevery year,” said Suzanne Sparling,spokeswoman for United Way ofBrevard. “Volunteers from NASA atKSC as well as contractors arealways there reaching out, willingto make a difference through OurDays of Caring projects.”

Pad SCAPE Base unveiled

KSC team members serve Baxley Manor residents during Days ofCaring. The servers are (from left) Aneta Ott, Dana St. Jean, BettyValentine and Bet Eldred.

The opening of the new LC-39Pad SCAPE Base Oct. 30 markedanother step towards supportingCenter Director Roy Bridges’ goalsfor Kennedy Space Center. “Safetyand Health First is one of KSC’sguiding principles,” Bridges said.

“We can be proud. This facilitywill enhance the quality of life forour very important workers.”

Self Contained AtmosphericProtective Ensemble (SCAPE)

70 workers getnew home

Cutting the ribbon on the new Pad SCAPE Base are (from left) WallySchroeder, Jones Edmunds and Associates; Center Director RoyBridges; Chris Fairey, director of Spaceport Services; WilliamPickavance, USA vice president and deputy program manager;William Chivers, Rush Construction; and Mike Leinbach, NASAlaunch director.

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Edward Baglioni,Boeing Human SpaceFlight & ExplorationEllen Brown,BoeingSamuel Haddad,Safety Health & Indepen-dent AssessmentMichael Haddad,International SpaceStation/PayloadProcessingJohn Halsema,External Relations &Business DevelopmentStephanie Hopper,BoeingWilliam Jones,BoeingAndrew Knight,United Space AllianceEmery Lamar,Space Shuttle ProcessingRichard Mizell,Space Shuttle ProcessingRonald Morris,International SpaceStation/PayloadProcessingMichael Olejarski,United Space AllianceKaren Pardy,United Space AllianceHenry Schwarz,Space Shuttle ProcessingDiane Stees,Space Shuttle ProcessingJames Stewart,BoeingLorene Williams,Workforce & DiversityManagement

Silver Snoopy

Awards

Recognizing Our People

AdditionEmployee of the Year BetEldred was not listed withother employees honored inthe Oct. 26 issue ofSpaceport News. Eldredworks in the Workforce &Diversity ManagementDirectorate.

Space Pioneersevent to honorSnoopy winners

Workers win QASAR AwardsSeven NASA and contractor

employees at Kennedy SpaceCenter were honored this quarterwith the Quality And SafetyAchievement Recognition(QASAR) Award.

The QASAR recognizes indi-viduals who have displayedexemplary performance in contrib-uting products and services and asafe environment and processes.

The award is sponsored byNASA Headquarters’ Office ofSafety and Mission Assurance.

The director of KSC’s Safety,Health and Independent Assess-ment Directorate makes the finalselection of QASAR recipients atthe Space Center. The honorees:

• Jeffrey Anderson of SpaceGateway Support (SGS) wasselected for a QASAR Awardbecause of his leadership andcommitment to safety and healthexcellence, which has significantlybenefited SGS and the Voluntary

Protection Program.• David Diedrich of United

Space Alliance (USA) was selectedfor going above and beyond toidentify a procedural error associ-ated with testing flight hardwareand providing the necessary datato validate a solution.

• Roger Gillette of USA wasselected for developing andimplementing the ConstraintsAutomated Tracking System. Hisdedication and perseverance hasresulted in the highest qualityproduct that will enhance theaccuracy and accountability priorto starting Shuttle processing andtesting.

• Larry Maggie of NASA wasselected for the exceptionaldedication and extraordinaryinitiative he exhibited duringShuttle processing operations.

His attention to detail uncoveredan Orbiter Vehicle anomaly that, if

not corrected, could have causedinjury to the flight crew and/orflight hardware.

• Melanie Moon of USA wasselected for her efforts in identify-ing a potential operational hazardand demonstrating exemplarybehavior to ensure overall person-nel safety and well-being.

• David Wiedemuth of NASAwas selected for diverting apotential oxygen hazard during theHigh Pressure Gas Tank Oxygen filloperations for the Airlock Assem-bly, and his dedication to safeoperations for the InternationalSpace Station hardware andpersonnel.

• Brent Wiseman of USA wasselected for significant contribu-tions to Safety and MissionAssurance. His dedication andalertness prevented a potentialsafety hazard for the Orbiter as wellas co-workers.

The Missile, Range, and SpacePioneers will recognize SilverSnoopy recipients at their “FallGathering” Nov. 16 at the HolidayInn Oceanfront.

The cost to attend is $10.The Pioneers want to contact as

many Silver Snoopy recipients aspossible, even those not availableto attend the gathering.

Details on the Pioneers and theevent are available from Pioneersvice president Don Beck. E-mailzsifter@aol.com or call 632-2466. The Pioneers is a non-profitorganization established for thepurpose of providing an opportu-nity for people associated withmissile, space and range activitiesto meet socially to renew and makeacquaintances. General member-ship meetings are held in the Springand Fall of each year.

History presentationBrevard County History Volume 3, which includes historicalpictures from Kennedy Space Center, was recently presented toCenter Director Roy Bridges by Jim Hattaway, representing theNASA Exchange stores. The sundry stores are selling the book.Pictured from left are book author Doug Hendriksen, author JimBall, Bridges, KSC archivist Elaine Liston and Hattaway.

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Center equipped with automated defibrillatorsEvery year about 250,000 Americans die from

sudden cardiac arrest.The majority of sudden cardiac arrests are

caused by ventricular fibrillation (VF), a condi-tion that results in a disorganized cardiacrhythm and inadequate pumping leading to poorblood circulation.

Defibrillation is the most effective way toconvert VF back to a normal rhythm.

As a result, the Kennedy Space CenterOccupational Health Program launched thesecond phase of the Automated ExternalDefibrillator (AED) program. Fourteen AED units were purchased last yearas part of the first phase of KSC’s AED program.

Six AED units are located in Fire/Rescuevehicles for 911 response, three are assigned topublic affairs medical support teams forlaunches and landings, two are deployed withmedical personnel to Transoceanic AbortLanding sites or used at KSC if not deployed.One is in each Fitness Center and one is in theVisitors’ Center clinic. Each AED is under thecontrol of trained medical personnel. According to Dr. John Cinco, a medical officerwith the Aerospace Medicine and OccupationalHealth Branch of Spaceport Services, thesecond phase of the program will involvetraining numerous non-medical personnel toqualify them to use the AED, and placingseveral more units throughout KSC.

Each AED will be located in its own station,and wired to a telephone system that automati-cally dials 911 and reports the location when the

unit is accessed. A list of names and locationsof nearby qualified AED users will be posted ateach station. An AED allows trained non-medical person-nel to perform cardiac defibrillation in case ofsudden cardiac arrest due to VF. Time is animportant factor in successfully converting VF.Each minute of delay in obtaining a normalrhythm decreases the chance of survival by 10percent. According to Cinco, few resuscitation

attempts are successful after as little as 10minutes. “The bottom line is that AED units savelives,” commented Cinco. “KSC has them andwe’re working to get more.” For more information regarding the AEDprogram, please contact Larry Davis, a healthtraining administrator for Occupational Medi-cine and Emergency Medical Services atComprehensive Health Services, at 867-2027.

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Firefighter James Kasik with Space Gateway Support checks an Automated External Defibrillator.

“Safety and Health First is oneof KSC’s guiding principles. Wecan be proud. This facility willenhance the quality of life forour very important workers.”

ROY BRIDGES,KSC DIRECTOR

clothing is mandatory for employees that work with hypergolicpropellants.

The new Pad SCAPE Base, located between launch pads 39A and39B, replaces temporary trailers with permanent work areas for theemployees affected by these requirements.

The new facility is approximately 6,300 square feet and providesspace for roughly 70 employees. The facility includes areas for SCAPEsuit maintenance, storage and servicing as well as staging for SCAPEtechnicians. It will also be used as a fallback facility during hazardousoperations.

Chris Fairey, director of Spaceport Services, served as master ofceremonies. He explained that the Pad SCAPE Base is only a small partof a much larger project.

“This is just one of six facilities being built to promote safety andhealth at KSC,” Fairey said.

Similar to the Pad SCAPE Base, the additional facilities will alsoprovide permanent modern housing in the Launch Complex 39 andHypergol Maintenance Facility (HMF) areas.

According to Bridges, the projects, with a capital value of approxi-mately $16,000,000, confirm KSC’s commitment to the elimination ofdeteriorating, unsafe and substandard temporary housing.

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Inside th

Because the International SpaceStation is a faraway outpost forastronauts, it periodically must bere-supplied with foodstuffs, waterand maintenance items. Refusemust be taken away.

And because the Station is aresearch laboratory that will take ona wide variety of experiments,research racks also must bedelivered and returned.

The pressurized carriers used to

transport items to and from theStation are called the multi-purposelogistics modules (MPLMs).

Built by the Italian SpaceAgency, they are individuallyknown as Leonardo, Raffaello andDonnatello.

Leonardo and Raffaello havealready flown. Donnatello, whichhas not flown, is being stored inthe Operations and CheckoutBuilding.

Raffaello recently was loaded inthe payload processing canisterand at presstime was ready to betaken out to the payload changeoutroom at Launch Pad 39B.

The module is to fly on STS-108,which is scheduled to launch Nov.29. Leonardo is being processed atthe Space Station ProcessingFacility for STS-111, set to launchthis spring.

Each MPLM is 21 feet long and

15 feet in diameter. Each weighsalmost 4.5 tons and can carry up to10 tons of cargo.

Unloaded, the modules arerelatively simple in design —shielded and insulated containersthat can be loaded in four quadrantareas.

Because each MPLM canfunction both as an attachedStation module as well as a cargotransport, each includes compo-

From left, John Schiess, LiliVillarreal, Don Stieler and MikeSerra perform MPLMcloseouts.

Boeing engineer Bob Pokorny prepares to open Leonardo’s internal panels. The MPLM is being processed

Technicians Jeff Brewer and Doug Smith applythe fire retardant Nomex material to foam MPLMpacking materials.

Doug Smith covers MPLM foampacking material with Nomex.

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he MPLM

nents that provide some lifesupport, fire detection and sup-pression, electrical distribution andcomputer functions.

A dedicated crew of Boeingpayload processing team membersempty, repair, test, create foampacking material for, and fillreturning MPLMs for their mis-sions.

To easily move the racks andsupplies into and out of the

modules during processing, Boeingengineers designed and developeda rack insertion device.

The device’s robot-like arm,controlled remotely by technicians,grasps the racks of supplies andexperiments and precisely movesthem through a module openingand places the racks along themodule walls.

On-orbit the astronauts float theracks or the cargo through the

MPLM hatches. When an MPLMreturns from a mission, the process-ing team uses the same device tounload the returned racks withsupplies and experiments.

“It’s our job to get logistics andresearch materials up and back asefficiently as possible,” said MarkSorensen, Boeing senior managerof resupply and return. “We’llprocess these same modules overand over again.”

The multi-purpose logistics module known at Donatello is stored in theOperations and Checkout Building.

A rack insertion device is used by Boeing workers to help place a rack inan MPLM.

in the Space Station Processing Facility for the STS-111 mission.

Engineer Maria Romeroprepares drawings for thecreation of foam packingmaterial for an MPLM.

A dedicated crew ofBoeing payload processingteam members empty,repair, test, create foampacking material for, andfill returning MPLMs fortheir missions.

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The Florida Space Grant Consor-tium (FSGC), the Florida SpaceResearch Institute (FSRI), Univer-sity of Central Florida (UCF) andthe Spaceport Florida Authority(SFA) combined resources to createa grant program that will benefitKennedy Space Center and manyother organizations.

FSGC, a multi-university organi-zation administered by UCF, is partof a nationwide NASA-sponsorednetwork of academic groupsresponsible for supporting spaceresearch and education projects.

Under the grant program, FSGCrecently awarded more than$300,000 in grants to 27 spaceresearch and education projectsacross the state. These projectswere selected, on a competitivebasis, from among university andindustry applicants.

Sixteen of these projects includeundergraduate participation.

The eight Florida universitiesparticipating in the projects areEmbry Riddle AeronauticalUniversity, Florida Institute ofTechnology, Florida State Univer-sity, UCF, University of Florida,University of North Florida,University of Miami and Universityof South Florida.

A similar program was adminis-tered in the past by FSGC with

limited funds from NASA.“Consequent to the FSGC

moving to the University of CentralFlorida, a change of focus andpooling of resources has now madethis program more attractive toboth university and industryresearchers,” said JaydeepMukherjee, administrator of FSGC.

In 1999, FSRI collaborated withUCF and SFA to add state funds tothe grant program.

Edward Ellegood, FSRI’s directorof Policy & Program Development,said the Governor’s Office liked theidea of leveraging multiple fundingsources with NASA and focusingthe program to support the state’sspace industry needs.

Kennedy Space Center’sUniversity Programs ManagerGregg Buckingham considers the

program a success.“FSGC has done a great job in

recent years in increasing theamount of funding available toprovide to students and facultyinterested in space-related re-search. Perhaps more important,they have increased the number ofuniversities receiving grants, somore universities are exposed toNASA-related activity,”Buckingham said.“They have alsoadded innovative programs like theMarsport Design Competition inwhich students compete to designproducts of interest to the NASAmission.”

According to Ellegood, theprogram greatly impacts KSC andits spaceport technology needs.

“The grant program has fundednearly $1 million in projects since2000, including 45 awards touniversity, community college andindustry projects statewide. Ourgoal is to build interest andexpertise within the state’s univer-sities to support the expansion anddiversification of Florida’s spaceindustry. Many of the proposals wehave funded are designed specifi-cally to support KSC’s focus onspaceport and range technologies,”he said.

FSGC, FSRI and SFA are cur-rently reviewing 51 university/

industry proposals received underthe latest grant program solicita-tion. The submissions focus ontechnologies of interest to NASA,the Air Force and industry, withprojects involving micro- and nano-satellites, biotech, suborbitalresearch payloads, Space Stationutilization and other areas.

In the future, the program plansto fund more university andindustry partnership projects, andpromote university support forSmall Business Innovative Re-search (SBIR) projects.

FSGC hopes to expand thisprogram through increased fundingfrom NASA and funding from othergovernment and industry partners.

“In the future, we plan to haveonly one solicitation per yearinstead of the two fall and springcycles we have so far,” Mukherjeesaid.

Ellegood explained other goalsfor the program: “We also want toincrease the visibility and publica-tion of our funded projects byorganizing panel sessions dedi-cated to academic research duringannual Space Congress events.”

A listing of all grant projectssupported by the joint programsince 2000 are posted on FSGC’sWeb site at http://fsgc.engr.ucf.edu/.

Space grant program supports spaceport technology

Hubble payloadPart of the equipment to be used onmission STS-109, servicing the HubbleSpace Telescope, was moved into afacility at Kennedy Space Center Oct. 19.The primary servicing tasks of themission are to replace Solar Array 2 withSolar Array 3, replace the Power ControlUnit, remove the Faint Object Cameraand install the Advanced Camera forSurveys, install the NICMOS CoolingSystem, and install New Outer BlanketLayer Insulation on bays 5 through 8.Mission STS-109 is scheduled forlaunch in mid-February 2002.

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Four astronautsto be inductedinto Hall of Fame

USA reduces deviations by 65 percentUnited Space Alliance, in a

company-wide initiative to improvethe written instructions used tolaunch and maintain NASA’s SpaceShuttle fleet, is working to minimizechanges and additions, calleddeviations, to Operations andMaintenance Instructions.

These deviations are written byengineers to address neededchanges or desired enhancement toexisting work instructions.

A focused effort to reducedeviations was established duringthe second quarter of 1999 by theoperations maintenance documen-tation planning and production(OMDP&P) department andengineers.

OMDP&P has reached andsurpassed its interim goal ofreducing permanent deviations 65percent, from 6,420 to 2,250.

OMDP&P was tasked withincorporating existing deviations,while USA’s engineers were trainedto help incorporate the writtendeviations to enhance and speed

up the deviation incorporationprocess.

“I am pleased with the efforts onOMDP&P to focus on incorporat-ing these permanent deviationsinto the Operations and Mainte-nance Instructions,” said EdAdamek, USA’s vice president ofFlorida Technical Operations.“Having a single set of directivesfor each given operation helpsoptimize the quality and safety ofour work instructions.”

The Aerospace Safety AdvisoryPanel in its 1998 report to NASAand the U.S. Congress mandatedthe reduction in the quantity ofpermanent deviations.

The goal is to enhance opera-tional performance by improvingthe readability of the work authori-zation documents, which dovetailswith the USA’s goal of achievingcustomer satisfaction.

USA’s initiative of minimizingdeviations is further supported byanother initiative called Category 1Documentation Evaluation Review.

CDER utilizes engineers, techni-cians, and quality and safetypersonnel to review and modify allflight documents currently in use.

The CDER process results in amore readable document improvedby all of the document’s stakehold-ers. All existing deviations areincorporated during the CDERprocess.

“The contractor made significant

progress in improving the qualityof procedures used on the floor,”said Mike Wetmore, deputydirector of Shuttle Processing.“The average number of deviationsper procedure is less than one andthe majority are issued with nodeviations whatsoever.”

The next goal for OMDP&P is1,500 permanent deviations byDecember 2001.

The largest contingent of former astronauts everto assemble on the Space Coast were set at presstime to be at the Kennedy Space Center onNovember 9-10 for the induction of the first fourSpace Shuttle astronauts into the U.S. AstronautHall of Fame. Thirty-four space explorers from the Mercury,Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo-Soyuz and SpaceShuttle projects were to pay tribute to RobertCrippen, Joe Engle, Frederick “Rick” Hauck andRichard Truly. “This terrific turnout is a tremendous tribute tothese four veteran shuttle commanders, who willjoin 44 Mercury, Gemini and Apollo astronautsalready enshrined,” said Apollo 13 commanderJames Lovell, chairman of the Astronaut Scholar-ship Foundation

The foundation is hosting the event, in coopera-tion with Delaware North Park Services Inc., whichoperates the KSC Visitor Complex. Throughout theweekend the astronauts will meet with the public,answer questions and sign autographs. The enshrinement of the four shuttle astronautswas set for 2 p.m. Saturday at the Visitor Complex.

Astronauts Jim Voss(left) and Susan Helmsplanted a cherry laureltree outside the KSCHeadquarters buildingOct. 16. They werecommemorating theirstay as Expedition 2crew members aboardthe International SpaceStation. Expedition 2,which also includedcosmonaut YuryUsachev, made thespace voyage to theStation on mission STS-102 in March 2001. Afterfive months on theStation, the crewreturned to Earth, at theKSC Shuttle LandingFacility, on mission STS-105 in August 2001.

Expedition 2

From left, Debbie Dorn, Ryan Gilmore and Mike Stevanus review adiagram of the Shuttle. The three reviewed a deviation incorporationprocess for one of USA’s Operations and Maintenance Instructions.

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Remembering Our Heritage

20 years ago: STS-2 launch lit the skyWorkers at Kennedy Space

Center overcame many obstacles tosend the second Shuttle mission ofNASA’s Space Launch Programinto space 20 years ago.

Space Shuttle Columbia lifted offfrom Launch Pad 39A, Nov. 12,1981, carrying Commander JosephEngle and Pilot Richard Truly onMission STS-2. It was the first re-flight of Orbiter Vehicle 102,Columbia. Originally set for Oct. 9, 1981,the launch was rescheduled to Nov.4 due to a nitrogen tetroxide spillthat occurred during loading of theforward reaction control system.

On Nov. 4, the launch wasdelayed and then scrubbed whenfuel cell oxygen tank pressuresgave a low reading. Launchoccurred at 10:09:59 a.m. EST, onNov. 12, after a slight delay. Ted Sasseen, then NASA’sdirector of engineering, recalls,“For all the problems whichoccurred during launch processing,the very first turn-around, and thevery first re-flight, we didn’t do halfbad.” Ann Montgomery, site managerof the Orbital Processing Facility in1981, commented, “My firstreaction was that the secondlaunch was surely easier than thefirst one.”

Montgomery, now deputydirector of Safety, Health andIndependent Assessment, added,“I began to realize that it would bea long time before a Shuttle launchwould be routine and that we

would need to continue workinghard to make each one safe.” The mission was cut from itsoriginally scheduled five days toalmost three days, yet the crew stillachieved 90 percent of the missionobjectives.

These included testing theCanadian-built remote manipulator

system for the first time, andcarrying the Office of Space andTerrestrial Applications-1 (OSTA-1)Earth observation experiments,mounted on the Spacelab pallet inColumbia’s payload bay, to gatherdata for scientists. Remote Earth-sensing experiments, including onethat measured the Earth’s air

pollution, were also carried aboardColumbia. After the mission,Columbia landed on Runway 23 atEdward Air Force Base, Calif., at1:23 p.m. PST, Nov. 14, 1981. Conrad Nagel, VAB site managerin 1981, remembers STS-2’sprocessing was easier than STS-1,the first Space Shuttle Launch.“We understood the vehiclerequirements so much better andthe VAB processing time was muchshorter.”

Nagel, now chief of the ShuttleProject Office added, “STS-2 wasless stressful for the whole team.” Jeff Wheeler, a NASA orbiterflight electrical engineer at the time,and now a Checkout and LaunchControl System (CLCS) user liaison,summed it up this way, “Althoughwe had gone through STS-1 andhad a safe and successful launch,we were still dealing with new anddifferent problems with STS-2.Each day that we came to work wewere met by new challenges.”

CFC posts strongest year

The second Shuttle mission, STS-2, launched on Nov. 12, 1981.

“Although we had gonethrough STS-1 and had a safeand successful launch, wewere still dealing with newand different problems withSTS-2. Each day that wecame to work we were met bynew challenges.”JEFF WHEELER,CLCS USER LIAISON

This year’s Combined FederalCampaign at Kennedy SpaceCenter set an all-time contributionrecord.

More than 80 percent of theNASA workforce generouslycontributed nearly $301,000, farexceeding the goal of $250,000.

More than $105,000 was contrib-uted to local charities.

The theme for this year’scampaign was “United We Care!”

The CFC provided the perfectopportunity to get personallyinvolved and show unity in the

wake of the Sept. 11 terroristattacks.

The campaign kicked off Oct. 1 inthe training auditorium and came toa close on Oct. 31.