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The NASA Flight Safety Award recognizes significant, outstanding, individual, or team contributions related to the prevention of anything that could lead to catastrophic mishap to the vehicle, crew, or mission. The area of consideration shall extend to all government/industry employees supporting all aspects of NASA's human spaceflight effort, including design, processing, quality testing, management, and administration. Only a few of these very prestigious awards are given each year.

The award consists of:

Award Presentation Process

Currently the NASA Associate Administrator for the Office of Safety and Mission Assurance presents the trophy and letter at an honoree reception at KSC.

Criteria

Choose nominees who make contributions above and beyond the normal work requirements of the individual/group. Choose contributions relating to the prevention of anything that could lead to catastrophic mishap to the vehicle, crew, or mission. The nominee(s) must also meet one of the following:

  1. 1. Contributed significantly to the prevention of a mishap that could cause loss of the vehicle, crew, or mission objective.
  2. 2. Be credited with identifying, reporting, or correcting a safety hazard that could directly cause a serious mishap to the vehicle, crew, or mission.
  3. 3. Be credited with suggesting an idea for improving flight safety, thereby preventing the probability of crew injury during a mission.
  4. 4. Exhibited timely reaction to an emergency and/or exhibited outstanding decision making while under extreme pressure.

Selection Process

Submit a nomination citing justification. Forward the nomination to the SFA Panel member for screening and approval and then to the SFA National Panel for review. Upon approval, the SFA National Panel member then forwards the nomination to the SFA Program Manager who submits it to the Flight Safety Panel for approval. Upon approval by the Flight Safety Panel, the nomination is forwarded to the Associate Administrator for Safety and Mission Assurance for final approval.