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PROGRAM PLAN 2017

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NASA’s Vision, Mission, and Strategic Goals

Associate Administrator Message

History of Space Flight Awareness Program Goals, Objectives, and Teams

SFA Activities, Visits, and Products

SFA Awards

2018 Events

FY 2017 Metrics

SFA Members

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THE VISION

We foster new discoveries and expand human knowledge for the benefit of all humankind.

THE MISSION

Pioneer advances in aeronautics, space exploration, science, and technology to transform our understanding of the Universe, unlock new opportunities and inspire the World.

FOUR STRATEGIC THRUSTS

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NASA’S VISION, MISSION, AND STRATEGIC GOALS

HISTORY OF SPACE FLIGHT AWARENESS

NASA established the Space Flight Awareness (SFA) Motivation and Recognition Program in 1963 after the Mercury and Gemini period, to infuse the space program with a renewed and strengthened consciousness of quality and flight safety. As NASA’s human space flight programs continued and developed, the NASA Centers increased the assistance they provided to the employees’ motivation programs of their contractors and other government agencies. SFA soon became the watchword of the American space program.

The SFA Program played an integral and increasingly forceful safety role in the Saturn, Apollo Skylab and Apollo- Soyuz projects. By the time the Space Shuttle first flew, the program had expanded to include subcontractors providing critical hardware, software and services. As regular Space Shuttle missions grew in complexity and the International Space Station became a reality, the SFA Program evolved into one of the single most successful motivational initiatives within all federal and contractor departments and agencies.

The future of space flight brings new opportunities and challenges for the SFA Program. To continue to be effective, the program must keep pace with an ever-changing environment of people, systems and processes that design, build, fly and support human space flight.

For that reason, NASA and the contractor National SFA Working Group work diligently to ensure an effective and valuable program. SFA continues to focus on excellence in quality and safety – for the lives of the astronauts, for mission success and for the success of America’s space program.

Robert M. Lightfoot Jr., Acting Administrator

• Discover • Explore

• Develop• Enable

STRATEGIC GOALS

1. Expand human knowledge through new scientific discoveries2. Extend continuous human presence deeper into space3. Address societal challenges and catalyze economic growth4. Optimize capabilities and operations

You, the members of NASA’s hu-man spaceflight team, continued our remarkable progress in our exploration goals in 2017. NASA’s Space Flight Awareness (SFA) program continued to be integral to our human spaceflight program success by providing employee

recognition to our dedicated civil service and contractor workforce for their exceptional contributions to our various programs and mission successes.

Building on our 2017 accomplishments, 2018 will be an exciting year. In December 2017, the President signed Space Policy Directive-1 directing NASA to “Lead an innovative and sustainable program of exploration with commercial and international partners to enable human expansion across the solar system and to bring back to Earth new knowledge and opportunities.” Under this new guidance, NASA’s human spaceflight program is already implementing sustainable long-term plans,

preparing new missions, and developing new systems for the human exploration of deep space.

American astronauts will return to cislunar space to build and begin testing technologies and techniques needed to keep humans safe, healthy, and productive on a mission to Mars. The first un-crewed test flight of the SLS/Orion system will occur in FY 2020 on Exploration Mission (EM) 1, leading to human missions to explore cislunar space beginning with EM-2 in 2022.

We’ll continue work on the Propulsion and Power Element (PPE) the first capability of the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway required to mature necessary short and long duration exploration capabilities. In addition, we’ll initiate planning of Advanced Cislunar and Surface Capabilities to develop a series of progressively greater lunar missions to the surface of the moon.

In 2018, we’ll continue to partner with space industry and international partners to develop prototype habitats,

ASSOCIATE ADMINISTRATOR MESSAGE

Vice President Mike Pence Speaks at 2017 Astronaut Class Announcement.

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life support systems, and other habitation technologies --conducting integrated ground testing and ISS-based testing to reduce risk for deep space missions. We will also see commercial crew vehicles begin to take flight and provide US launch capability for our crews to ISS.

Critical communication, navigation, launch services, rocket propulsion testing, and other services to NASA, and external customers will continue.

Finally, NASA is coordinating an unprecedented number of special educational outreach activities and resources this school year that will feature U.S. crew members aboard ISS. Designated the Year of Education on Station (YES), it takes advantage of the unique capability of the space station to stimulate the interest of students from kindergarteners to post-graduates by providing an extraordinary classroom experience. Thousands more will participate through NASA partnerships with learning centers, companies, universities, media organizations associations, and institutions. Further, new educational

demonstrations filmed in orbit, linking life in space and human exploration, will be unveiled and available to classrooms coast to coast throughout the year

I want to thank every human spaceflight member for your contributions to our mission success. Each one of you has contributed and we appreciate your commitment. We look forward to NASA and contractor organizations continuing to partner and to participate and support the SFA Program in recognizing our workforce for their exemplary human spaceflight contributions. Let’s continue to focus on the future and I look forward to working together in 2018.

William H. GerstenmaierNASA Associate AdministratorHuman Exploration & Operations Mission Directorate

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2018 Space Flight AwarenessProgram Goals 1. Sponsor employee recognition and motivation events utilizing our Astronaut Corps and senior management. 2. Sponsor milestone events. 3. Continue to promote International Space Station missions and other future human spaceflight program missions. Recognize significant accomplishments. 4. Promote awareness of future programs by developing awareness and safety products, and recognize significant program milestones.

Space Flight Awareness Objectives 1. Improve employee awareness on the importance of their role in promoting safety, quality, and mission success. 2. Conduct events that motivate and recognize the workforce and improve employee morale. 3. Function as an internal communications team to disseminate key program safety, quality, and mission messages. 4. Increase awareness of the spaceflight program with a focus on safety and mission success. Acknowledge objectives, accomplishments, and milestones. 5. Maintain supplier motivational and recognition programs.

SPACE FLIGHT AWARENESS PROGRAM GOALS, OBJECTIVES, AND TEAMS NASA established the Space Flight Awareness (SFA) program in 1963. It was established as a formal program after the Mercury and Gemini program, to infuse the space program with a renewed and strengthened consciousness of quality and flight safety. Since its inception, SFA’s mission has been to ensure that all employees involved in human space flight are aware of the impact their actions can have on astronaut safety and mission success. During this time, thousands of individuals were recognized for their contributions to the safety and success of NASA’s programs. The key to SFA’s longevity is its two-pronged approach to meeting its goal – awareness and recognition

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Space Flight Awareness Program Teams

Products: Produce products that highlight safety and awareness of human spaceflight programs.

Awareness: Increase awareness of the SFA Program. Develops key messages related to astronaut and mission success for human spaceflight.

Supplier: Promote awareness and provide recognition to critical suppliers which provide outstanding products and services in support of the human spaceflight programs and mission.

SFA Activities

SFA activities include motivational visits and the development, display and distribution of awareness tools.

SFA Visits

SFA works to arrange executive and astronaut visits to help remotely located employees feel that they are part of the human spaceflight team, and to give them an opportunity to get to know those who will use the products they design and build.

SFA Products

SFA uses a variety of products to focus on key aspects of human spaceflight requirements and mission activities:

• Printed products – safety, quality, reliability, mission, astronauts, significant milestones

• Decals – Space Shuttle and International Space Station missions

• Lapel Pins – vehicle, mission, milestones

• Safety Day activities

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SPACE FLIGHT AWARENESS ACTIVITIES, VISITS, AND PRODUCTS

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Silver Snoopy Award

This is the astronauts’ personal award. To qualify for this award, eligible candidates will have made contributions toward enhancing the probability of mission success or improvements in design, administrative/technical/production techniques, business systems, flight and/or systems safety, oridentification and correction or preventive actions for errors. This award is generally not intended formanagement. Only one Silver Snoopy award per individual is permitted.

Honoree Award

This award is one of the highest presented to NASA and industry and is for first-level management and below. This award is presented to employees for their dedication to quality work and flight safety. To qualify, the individual must have contributed beyond his or her normal work requirements to achieve significant impact on attaining a particular human spaceflight program goal; contributed to a major cost savings; been instrumental in developing modification to hardware, software, or materials that increase reliability, efficiency, or performance; assisted in operationalimprovements; or been a key player in developing a beneficial process improvement.

Flight Safety Award

This award recognizes significant, outstandingindividual or team contributions related tothe prevention of anything that could lead toa catastrophic mishap to the vehicle, crewor mission. The approval process for thisaward includes the SFA National Panel, theFlight Safety Panel, and the NASA AssociateAdministrator for Safety and Mission Assurance.

Team Award

This award is used to recognize small groups of employees that have demonstrated exemplary teamwork while accomplishing a particular task or goal in support of the human spaceflight program.

Supplier Award

This annual award honors outstandingperformance by hardware, software, or servicesuppliers who support NASA human spaceflight programs. Awardees are chosen based on their production of high-quality products, excellent technical and cost performance and adherence to schedules.

Management Award

This award is intended for recognition of proactive mid-level managers who consistently demonstrateloyalty, empowerment, accountability, diversity,excellence, respect, sharing, honesty, and integrity.

Trailblazer Award

This award is used to recognize employees who are in the early stages of their career. Awardees must demonstrate strong work ethic and creative, innovative thinking in support of human spaceflight.

Special Local Award

The SFA Special Local Award is presented to 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. The SFA Special Local Award should not be used as recognition for an individual’s longevi-ty, retirement, or separation from service.

SPACE FLIGHT AWARENESS PROGRAM AWARDS

For more information on SFA visit www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/sfa/space-flight-awareness. 6

NASA Astronaut Jeff Williams presents Silver Snoopy award to IT security specialist Ann Marie Keim, at the Kennedy Space Center.

SPACE FLIGHT AWARENESS 2018 EVENTS

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RS-25 Engine Test Stennis Space Center

June 2018

NASA 60th Anniversary Location: TBDSeptember 2018

AWARD METRICS

Fiscal Year

Silver Snoopy Awards

Honoree Awards

Flight Safety Awards

Team Awards

Total # of Team Members

Supplier Awards

Management Awards

Local Recognition

Trailblazer Awards

Astronaut Visits

2013 221 132 2 38 789 1 13 21 2 20

2014 227 28 6 45 2731 0 19 28 0 28

2015 175 166 1 38 618 2 22 0 20 42

2016 190 109 8 44 1469 7 33 6 22 42

2017 157 130 1 39 631 5 23 0 29 37

FY 2017 METRICS

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Team AwardsAmes Research CenterGlenn Research CenterGoddard Space Flight CenterJohnson Space CenterKennedy Space CenterLangley Research CenterDCMAAerojet RocketdyneBoeingLockheed Martin

3911312821461

Team Members AwardedAmes Research CenterGlenn Research CenterGoddard Space Flight CenterJohnson Space CenterKennedy Space CenterLangley Research CenterDCMAAerojet RocketdyneBoeingLockheed Martin

631 96

1201541719

10895013

Supplier AwardsJohnson Space CenterAerojet RocketdyneBoeingLockheed Martin

51112

Trailblazer AwardsAmes Research CenterGlenn Research CenterGoddard Space Flight CenterJohnson Space CenterKennedy Space CenterBoeingLockheed Martin

29 121

12733

Management AwardsHeadquartersAmes Research CenterGoddard Space Flight CenterJohnson Space CenterAerojet RocketdyneBoeingLockheed Martin

2321141131

Astronaut VisitsGoddard Space Flight CenterJohnson Space CenterKennedy Space CenterLangley Research CenterMarshall Space Flight CenterStennis Space CenterDCMAAerojet RocketdyneBoeingLockheed MartinOrbital ATK

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Flight Safety Awards Glenn Research Center

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Silver Snoopy Awards Goddard Space Flight CenterJohnson Space CenterKennedy Space CenterLangley Research CenterMarshall Space Flight CenterNESCNSSCStennis Space CenterDCMAAerojet RocketdyneBoeingLockheed MartinOrbital ATK

Honoree Awards HeadquartersAmes Research CenterGlenn Research CenterGoddard Space Flight CenterJohnson Space CenterKennedy Space CenterMarshall Space Flight CenterNESCNSSCStennis Space CenterDCMAAerojet RocketdyneBoeingLockheed Martin

FY 2017 METRICS (Cont....)

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SFA Honorees with Friends and Family Launch Day, Atlas V/TDRS M Launch

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TDRS-M LAUNCH EVENT

FY 2017 METRICS

Astronaut Ricky Arnold preparing for spacewalk in the Quest Airlock of the International Space Station

SPACE FLIGHT AWARENESS WORKING GROUP MEMBERS

The SFA working group strives to ensure an effective program, one of value to the human space flight workforce. The focus of the program continues to be excellence in quality, safety and mission success.

Sallie Bilbo*NASA Stennis Space Center

Amy GriggNASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Diana KingNASA Marshall Space Flight Center

Susan AndersonNASA Johnson Space Center

Shera McNeillNASA Headquarters

Jane MasconiNASA Kennedy Space Center

Charles Burt Orbital ATK

Kara Denny Lockheed Martin

Agnes VargasThe Boeing Company

Julie ZingermanAerojet Rocketdyne

Dr. Alotta TaylorOffice of Human Exploration and OperationsNASA Headquarters, Program Manager

* SFA working group member also represents: Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center, Defense Contract Management Agency, Glenn Research Center, Langley Research Center, NASA Shared Services Center, and NASA Engineering & Safety Center

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SFA PROGRAM PLAN 2018

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