Engineer gets NASA award

STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. -- The NASA Environmental Management Division presented a 2012 Blue Marble Award for environmental excellence to Stennis Space Center engineer Bryon Maynard today. NASA Environmental Management Director James Leatherwood presented the NASA Environmental Quality Award to Maynard in recognition of his role in converting a 107,000-gallon liquid hydrogen sphere and two other tanks into offshore artificial reefs. Maynard's effort turned the tanks' scheduled demolition into a recycling project that helped to rebuild Mississippi Gulf Coast fish habitats disrupted and destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. (Source: NASA, 06/28/12)