Awards for Excellence - 2002

Awards for Excellence - 2002

May 24, 2002

The Award for Excellence recognizes individuals and teams who make exceptional contributions to the Laboratory's standard of excellence. These Awards recognize a specific accomplishment or sustained contribution that is clearly characterized by one of the following:

• Exceptional Technical Excellence - through significant achievement or substantial improvement that affects engineering, science, or technology.
  
• Exceptional Business Operations Excellence - through significant achievement or substantial improvement that affects administration, services, or support.
  
• Exceptional Quality - through sustained effort in displaying outstanding initiative and dedication to quality, productivity, customer focus, effectiveness, or efficiency.
  
• Exceptional Leadership - through sustained contribution based on superior effectiveness as a leader, mentor, or coach. (This category is for individual nominations only.)
  

Awards for Excellence were presented to the following individuals and teams on the Cassini/Huygens Project:

Randy Herrera Exceptional Quality For exceptional dedication and contribution in the implemention of the Radio Science Ground System for the Cassini Gravitational Wave Experiment.

Scott Bolton Exceptional Leadership For outstanding contribution as an Investigative Scientist for Cassini Science Planning to ensure the collection of science data during the Jupiter Flyby.

Candice Hansen Exceptional Leadership For outstanding contribution as an Investigative Scientist for Cassini Science Planning to ensure the collection of science data during the Jupiter Flyby.

Brian Paczkowski Exceptional Leadership For outstanding leadership as the Cassini Science Planning Manager.

Cassini Jupiter Encounter
Exceptional Technical Excellence
For significant achievement in the planning, development and execution of the science observation sequence for the Cassini Jupiter flyby.
Rozita Belenky Scott Bolton Jeffrey S. Boyer Thomas A. Burk Stuart Clark James H. Gerhard Jerod Gross Candice J. Hansen William M. Heventhal III	Otfrid Liepack Jerry M. Millard Brian Paczkowski Nazilla Rouse Stuart K. Stephens Alan K. Stevenson Hal Uffelman Kevin K. Yau

Huygens Recovery Task Force
Exceptional Technical Excellence
For significant achievement in the recovery from the relay receiver design flaw in support of the scientific data capture from the Huygens probe.
Kenneth S. Andrews Leslie J. Deutsch Samuel J. Dolinar Jr. Troy D. Goodson Jon Hamkins Jeremy B. Jones Guy Kauffman Allan Y. Lee	Earl H. Maize Fabrizio Pollara Duane C. Roth Laura L. Sakamoto Michael J. Sierchio Nathan J. Strange Julie L. Webster

Cassini Attitude & Articulation Control Subsystem (AACS)
Exceptional Quality
For outstanding dedication in resolving anomalies that resulted in meeting all Jupiter science objectives.
James W. Alexander Kevin J. Barltrop Rozita Belenky Thomas A. Burk Gene A. Hanover Danny-Cuong C. Lam Allan Y. Lee Shuh-Ren R. Lin	Glenn A. Macala David M. Myers Scott G. Peer Brad A. Shogrin Gurkirpal Singh Hal Uffelman Lisa A. Won

Additional information about Cassini is available online at:

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov.

Cassini will reach Saturn on July 1, 2004, and release its piggybacked Huygens probe about six months later for descent through the thick atmosphere of the moon Titan on Jan. 14, 2005. Cassini-Huygens is a cooperative mission of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C.

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