Wagner recognized by NASA Space Flight Awareness Program
Special to The Pass Post
Wagner recognized by NASA Space Flight Awareness Program
Pass Christian resident Melissa Wagner, an employee at NASA’s Stennis Space Center, recently received an Honoree Award from the agency’s Space Flight Awareness Program for outstanding support of human spaceflight.
Wagner is a NASA contract specialist in the Office of Procurement at NASA’s Stennis Space Center. She received the honor for contributions to NASA’s Artemis campaign by identifying potential risks related to propulsion test efforts in support of the initiative, resulting in successful mitigation actions.
NASA’s Space Flight Awareness Program recognizes outstanding job performances and contributions by civil service and contract employees throughout the year and focuses on excellence in quality and safety in support of human spaceflight. The Honoree Award is one of the highest honors presented to employees for their dedication to quality work and flight safety. Recipients must have contributed beyond their normal work requirements toward achieving a particular human spaceflight program goal; contributed to a major cost savings; been instrumental in developing material that increases reliability, efficiency or performance; assisted in operational improvements; or been a key player in developing a beneficial process improvement.
NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik, Space Operations Mission Directorate Associate Administrator Kenneth Bowersox, and Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate Acting Associate Administrator Dr. Lori Glaze presented the award during a ceremony in Orlando, Florida.
In recognition of flight program contributions, Wagner toured NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and viewed the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft named Endurance in conjunction with the launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10.
