Silver Snoopy Pin

Silver Snoopy Pin

Silver Snoopy Pin

Cynthia Simmons, acting center director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, congratulates NASA Range Operations Contract Engineer Manager at Wallops Flight Facility, Joseph Jimmerson, on his selection for the Silver Snoopy award, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Expedition 72 crew members, NASA astronauts Don Pettit and Nick Hague presented the Silver Snoopy to Jimmerson. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Silver Snoopy Pin

NASA astronaut Nick Hague signs a certificate and letter before a Silver Snoopy award presentation, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Hague served as part of Expedition 72 onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA astronaut Nick Hague speaks about his time onboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 72, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, during a Silver Snoopy award presentation event at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Don Pettit speak about their time onboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 72, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, during a Silver Snoopy award presentation event at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA astronauts Don Pettit and Nick Hague listen to a question about their time onboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 72, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, during a Silver Snoopy award presentation event at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA astronauts Don Pettit and Nick Hague speak about their time onboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 72, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, during a Silver Snoopy award presentation event at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA astronauts Don Pettit and Nick Hague speak about their time onboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 72, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, during a Silver Snoopy award presentation event at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA astronauts Don Pettit and Nick Hague speak about their time onboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 72, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, during a Silver Snoopy award event at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA astronauts Don Pettit and Nick Hague speak about their time onboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 72, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, during a Silver Snoopy award presentation event at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA astronaut Nick Hague signs a certificate and letter before a Silver Snoopy award presentation, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Hague served as part of Expedition 72 onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA astronaut Don Pettit speaks about his time onboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 72, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, during a Silver Snoopy award presentation event at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA astronauts Don Pettit and Nick Hague speak about their time onboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 72, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, during a Silver Snoopy award presentation event at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA astronaut Don Pettit signs a certificate and letter before a Silver Snoopy award presentation, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Pettit served as part of Expedition 72 onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA astronauts Don Pettit and Nick Hague speak about their time onboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 72, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, during a Silver Snoopy award presentation event at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA astronauts Don Pettit, left, and Nick Hague, right, pose for a photo with NASA Range Operations Contract Engineer Manager at Wallops Flight Facility, Joseph Jimmerson, at his Silver Snoopy award presentation event, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Pettit and Hague served as part of Expedition 72 onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Cynthia Simmons, acting center director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center introduces NASA astronauts Don Pettit and Nick Hague during a Silver Snoopy award event, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Pettit and Hague served as part of Expedition 72 onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Sachin Thackeray, NASA Research Assistant Specialist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, asks a question during a Silver Snoopy award presentation event where NASA astronauts Don Pettit and Nick Hague spoke about their time onboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 72, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA astronaut Don Pettit speaks to Cynthia Simmons, acting center director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, before a Silver Snoopy award presentation, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Pettit served as part of Expedition 72 onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center Director Patrick Scheuermann and astronaut Steve Robinson stand with recipients of the 2010 Silver Snoopy awards following a June 23 ceremony. Sixteen Stennis employees received the astronauts' personal award, which is presented by a member of the astronaut corps representing its core principles for outstanding flight safety and mission success. This year's recipients and ceremony participants were: (front row, l to r): Cliff Arnold (NASA), Wendy Holladay (NASA), Kendra Moran (Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne), Mary Johnson (Jacobs Technology Facility Operating Services Contract group), Cory Beckemeyer (PWR), Dean Bourlet (PWR), Cecile Saltzman (NASA), Marla Carpenter (Jacobs FOSC), David Alston (Jacobs FOSC); (back row, l to r) Scheuermann, Don Wilson (A2 Research), Tim White (NASA), Ira Lossett (Jacobs Technology NASA Test Operations Group), Kerry Gallagher (Jacobs NTOG); Rene LeFrere (PWR), Todd Ladner (ASRC Research and Technology Solutions) and Thomas Jacks (NASA).

NASA astronauts Don Pettit and Nick Hague speak with NASA Range Operations Contract Engineer Manager at Wallops Flight Facility, Joseph Jimmerson, before a Silver Snoopy award event, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Pettit and Hague served as part of Expedition 72 onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Dr. Noah Petro, NASA Artemis III Project Scientist and Lab Chief for the Planetary Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Laboratory provides remarks during a Silver Snoopy award event, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. NASA astronauts Don Pettit and Nick Hague spoke about their time onboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 72. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Cynthia Simmons, acting center director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center introduces NASA astronauts Don Pettit and Nick Hague during a Silver Snoopy award event, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Pettit and Hague served as part of Expedition 72 onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA astronauts Don Pettit and Nick Hague pose for a photo with an audience member after a Silver Snoopy award presentation event, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Pettit and Hague served as part of Expedition 72 onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA astronaut Don Pettit presents NASA Range Operations Contract Engineer Manager at Wallops Flight Facility, Joseph Jimmerson, with a Silver Snoopy pin, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Pettit and Hague served as part of Expedition 72 onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Don Pettit give NASA Range Operations Contract Engineer Manager at Wallops Flight Facility, Joseph Jimmerson, stickers and pins from their mission before a Silver Snoopy award presentation, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Pettit and Hague served as part of Expedition 72 onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA Space Flight Awareness Backup Lead for Goddard Space Flight Center, Amelia Haymes, provides remarks after NASA astronauts Don Pettit and Nick Hague presented NASA Range Operations Contract Engineer Manager at Wallops Flight Facility, Joseph Jimmerson, with a Silver Snoopy award, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Pettit and Hague served as part of Expedition 72 onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA astronauts Don Pettit and Nick Hague present NASA Range Operations Contract Engineer Manager at Wallops Flight Facility, Joseph Jimmerson, with a Silver Snoopy award, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Pettit and Hague served as part of Expedition 72 onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA astronauts Nick Hague, left, and Don Pettit speak to Cynthia Simmons, acting center director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, before a Silver Snoopy award presentation, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Pettit and Hague served as part of Expedition 72 onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA Space Flight Awareness Backup Lead for Goddard Space Flight Center, Amelia Haymes, provides remarks before NASA astronauts Don Pettit and Nick Hague present NASA Range Operations Contract Engineer Manager at Wallops Flight Facility, Joseph Jimmerson, with a Silver Snoopy award, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Pettit and Hague served as part of Expedition 72 onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA astronauts Don Pettit, left, and Nick Hague, right, pose for a photo with Silver Snoopy awardee, NASA Range Operations Contract Engineer Manager at Wallops Flight Facility, Joseph Jimmerson, second from left, and Cynthia Simmons, acting center director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, second from right, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Pettit and Hague served as part of Expedition 72 onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Silver Snoopy Awards recipients and reception

NASA astronauts Stephanie Wilson and Victor Glover pose with recipients of the Silver Snoopy award after the ceremony on Thursday, Oct. 17, at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. From left to right, those photographed include Wilson; Marcos Otero-Cruz, Defense Contract Management Agency; Mark Burton, Jacobs Technology; Kevin Vega, NASA Engineering; John Posey, NASA Engineering; Miles Ashley, NASA Engineering; Jamie Szafran, NASA Engineering; Paul Kuracz, NASA Engineering; Wilson Zheng, Jacobs Technology; Mark Dykstra, Defense Contract Management Agency; Elizabeth Cook, Safety and Mission Assurance; Dean Kendall, Jacobs Technology; Connie Lehan, NASA Engineering; Paul Janes, Jacobs Technology; Glover; and in front, Salim Nasser, NASA Engineering. The Silver Snoopy is part of NASA’s Space Flight Awareness Program, which recognizes outstanding job performances and contributions by civil servants and contract employees. It focuses on excellence in quality and safety in support of human spaceflight.

NASA astronaut Kayla Barron presents Tracy Osborne with the Space Flight Awareness (SFA) Silver Snoopy award Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)

NASA astronaut Kayla Barron presents Tracy Osborne with the Space Flight Awareness (SFA) Silver Snoopy award Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)

Silver Snoopy Awards recipients and reception

Silver Snoopy Awards recipients and Astronaut visit, Tour

Silver Snoopy Awards recipients and Astronaut visit, Tour

Silver Snoopy Awards recipients and Astronaut visit, Tour

NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren Hoburg, Silver Snoopy Award recipients Dr. Ruth Siboni and Dr. Brian Hollis, UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, pose for a photo after a Silver Snoopy Award presentation, Tuesday, March 19, 2024, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Bowen, Hoburg, and Alneyadi spent 186 days aboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 69; while Rubio set a new record for the longest single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut, spending 371 days in orbit on an extended mission spanning Expeditions 68 and 69. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

2013 Space Flight Awareness Awards-Silver Snoopy Awards

Astronauts Victor Glover and Jeanette Epps presented Silver Snoopy Awards at Stennis Space Center on June 27, including to NASA engineer Katie Carr Kopeso, who accepted the award with her ever-expanding family

NASA astronauts Warren Hoburg and Stephen Bowen, UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, pose for a photo after presenting Dr. Brian Hollis with the Silver Snoopy Award, Tuesday, March 19, 2024, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Bowen, Hoburg, and Alneyadi spent 186 days aboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 69; while Rubio set a new record for the longest single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut, spending 371 days in orbit on an extended mission spanning Expeditions 68 and 69. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA astronauts Warren Hoburg and Stephen Bowen, UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, pose for a photo after presenting Dr. Ruth Siboni with the Silver Snoopy Award, Tuesday, March 19, 2024, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Bowen, Hoburg, and Alneyadi spent 186 days aboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 69; while Rubio set a new record for the longest single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut, spending 371 days in orbit on an extended mission spanning Expeditions 68 and 69. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

JSC2000-01580 (22 February 2000) --- Snoopy, who has had a long history with the astronauts and Houston's Mission Control Center, showed up in the Shuttle Flight Control Room on one of the consoles during the STS-99 mission. The NASA Astronaut personal safety award -- called the Silver Snoopy -- is given for outstanding performance by NASA employees or NASA contractors who contribute to flight safety or mission success. Snoopy is a product of the imagination of the late cartoonist Charles Schulz. Schulz died on Saturday, Feb. 12, 2000, the second day of the 11-day SRTM mission and on the eve of his final color strip appearing in Sunday newspapers on February 13, 2000.

NASA Stennis Director John Bailey welcomes employees and guests to the Silver Snoopy Award ceremony on Aug. 21 at NASA’s Stennis Space Center. NASA’s Space Flight Awareness Program recognizes outstanding job performances and contributions by civil servants and contract employees. It focuses on excellence in quality and safety in support of human spaceflight.

Expedition 69 NASA astronaut Warren Hoburg describes the Silver Snoopy award after he and fellow crewmates NASA astronauts Frank Rubio and Stephen Bowen, and UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi spoke about their time aboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 69 during an employee engagement event Tuesday, March 19, 2024, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Bowen, Hoburg, and Alneyadi spent 186 days aboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 69; while Rubio set a new record for the longest single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut, spending 371 days in orbit on an extended mission spanning Expeditions 68 and 69. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Expedition 69 NASA astronaut Warren Hoburg presents the Silver Snoopy award to Ruth Siboni after he and fellow crewmates NASA astronauts Frank Rubio and Stephen Bowen, and UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi spoke about their time aboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 69 during an employee engagement event Tuesday, March 19, 2024, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Bowen, Hoburg, and Alneyadi spent 186 days aboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 69; while Rubio set a new record for the longest single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut, spending 371 days in orbit on an extended mission spanning Expeditions 68 and 69. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman speaks to employees and guests before presenting the Silver Snoopy awards on Aug. 21 at NASA’s Stennis Space Center. The Silver Snoopy is the astronauts’ personal award and is presented to less than 1 percent of the total NASA workforce annually. Wiseman will be one of four astronauts flying around the Moon on Artemis II, the first crewed mission on NASA’s path toward long-term scientific lunar exploration. The 10-day flight will test NASA’s foundational human deep space exploration capabilities, the agency’s powerful SLS (Space Launch System) rocket, and the Orion spacecraft for the first time with astronauts. The RS-25 engines helping to power SLS were tested at NASA Stennis.

Astronauts Rick Sturckow (right) and Pat Forrester make a presentation Aug. 2 at NASA Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss., about their recent space shuttle mission, STS-117. Sturckow and Forrester thanked employees for the reliability and safe performance of the space shuttle's main engines, which are all tested and proved flight-worthy at SSC. The astronauts delivered a video of their mission's highlights, held a question-and-answer session, met one-on-one with employees and presented two Silver Snoopy awards during their visit. The STS-117 mission, which launched June 8, delivered a truss segment and a set of U.S. solar arrays, batteries and associated equipment to the International Space Station. Sturckow commanded the mission; Forrester was a mission specialist who performed two of STS-117's four spacewalks.