NASA Presents Safety Award To Steven M. Davis

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Feb. 25, 2009

Allard Beutel
Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 
321-867-2468
allard.beutel@nasa.gov 

Beth Dickey 
Headquarters, Washington 
202-358-2087
beth.dickey-1@nasa.gov

RELEASE: 09-09

NASA PRESENTS SAFETY AWARD TO STEVEN M. DAVIS

WASHINGTON -- NASA has presented its Quality and Safety Achievement 
Recognition, or QASAR, award for 2008 to Steven M. Davis of 
Titusville, Fla.

Davis, an employee of the Defense Contract Management Agency at NASA's 
Kennedy Space Center, received the award for his attention to detail 
in an incident involving a space shuttle solid rocket booster. He was 
recognized along with three other recipients Feb. 25 at NASA's sixth 
annual Project Management Challenge in Daytona Beach, Fla.

The QASAR award recognizes individual government and contractor 
employees who have demonstrated exemplary performance in contributing 
to the quality and/or safety of products, services, processes, or 
management programs and activities.

"This is a great honor and I feel extremely privileged to be given 
this award. Winning this award is not about me. It took a lot of 
people everywhere to make this happen," said Davis, a native of 
Russell's Point, Ohio.

According to his award citation, Davis discovered that a quality 
assurance representative mistakenly waived a mandatory proof pressure 
test on a solid rocket booster gas generator, after contractor 
personnel had overlooked the inspection.

Davis then worked closely with NASA and contractor safety and mission 
assurance specialists to document the missed inspection for space 
shuttle program review and ensure that the gas generator was examined 
properly.

The graduate of Lindsey Wilson College in Columbia, Ky., also briefed 
the solid rocket booster contractors on the importance of mandatory 
inspections and prohibitions against waivers.

For more information about the Quality and Safety Achievement 
Recognition award program, visit:

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/codeq/qasar/ 

	
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