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Dryden Flight Research Center
P.O. Box 273
Edwards, California 93523
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                                       For Release: March 7, 2003
Frederick A. Johnsen, News Chief
NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
Phone: (661) 276-2998

Release:  03-13

NASA DRYDEN EMPLOYEE RECEIVES TOP SAFETY AWARD

NASA Dryden Flight Research Center's director of Research Engineering 
will receive one of the Agency's highest safety awards March 6.  J. 
Larry Crawford will be presented a NASA Quality and Safety Achievement 
Recognition (QASAR) award from NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe at the 
Seventeenth NASA Continual Improvement and Reinvention Conference in 
Alexandria, Va.

The QASAR award is one of four given to employees outside of the 
agency's Safety and Mission Assurance organization in recognition of 
continual improvement in reducing the number of on-the-job injuries. 
Crawford is the first civil servant to be honored with a QASAR at NASA 
Dryden, located on Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.

According to the award nomination, "Mr. Crawford has been a strong 
advocate for specific considerations of systems safety in the Research 
Engineering directorate. His previous experience in systems safety has 
resulted in strong integration of the function with our technical 
workforce... Of more importance, he continues to make system safety 
techniques an integrated part of each subsystem engineer's tool 
chest."

"This QASAR award means a lot to me because it was given to me by a 
community of Safety and Mission Assurance people I worked with many 
years ago who are very diligent at keeping us all focused on 
protecting the lives of our people. I work mostly with engineers 
today, but the spirit of the NASA safety community is always with me," 
said Crawford.

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