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The Silver Snoopy award is a special honor awarded to NASA employees and contractors for outstanding achievements related to human flight safety or mission success.〔(Goddard Space Flight Center - Silver Snoopy Award )〕〔(Goddard Space Flight Center - Silver Snoopy award application )〕 The award certificate states that it is "In Appreciation" "For professionalism, dedication and outstanding support that greatly enhanced space flight safety and mission success."〔(A Silver Snoopy award given to NASA employee Matthew Benson )〕 The award depicts Snoopy, a character from the ''Peanuts'' comic strip created by Charles M. Schulz. The award is given personally by NASA astronauts as it represents the astronauts' own recognition of excellence.〔 It is presented at the workplace of the recipient with the recipient's coworkers present. The Silver Snoopy award is one of several awards overseen by the Space Flight Awareness (SFA) program at NASA. The award consists of a sterling silver "Silver Snoopy" lapel pin flown during a NASA mission, a commendation letter (stating the mission the Silver Snoopy pin was flown on) and a signed, framed Silver Snoopy certificate. Snoopy decals and posters are also given to the recipient. == History == After the completion of the Mercury and Gemini projects, NASA wanted a way to promote greater awareness among its employees and contractors of the impact they had on flight safety, the flight crews and their missions.〔(MAES National Magazine - Minority Americans in Engineering and Science ) - Silver Snoopy Award presented to Rodolfo Gonzalez〕 NASA wanted to use a symbol for spaceflight that would be well known and accepted by the public, similar to the recognition received by the United States Forest Service's Smokey Bear. The idea for the Silver Snoopy award came from Al Chop, who was director of the public affairs office for the Manned Spacecraft Center (now called the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center). He wanted to create an award featuring Snoopy as an astronaut to be given by astronauts in recognition of outstanding contributions by employees.〔"(No retirement for Snoopy at NASA )," by Thom Marshall, ''Houston Chronicle'', reprinted at collectSPACE〕 Charles M. Schulz, who was an avid supporter of the U.S. space program, welcomed the idea of using Snoopy for the award. Schulz and United Feature Syndicate (the distributor of the Peanuts comic strip) agreed to let NASA use "Snoopy the Astronaut" at no cost.〔 Schulz himself drew the image the award pin was based on. He also drew promotional art for posters to promote the award program.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Silver Snoopy award」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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