Dr Louis Carfagno
In a new job with United Space Alliance. Carfagno’s main task involved taking suit measurements, yet he was no ordinary tailor. Carfagno would end up preparing astronauts for at least 11 different missions, two to four people at a time. Along with candidates in training, he estimates he suited up roughly 100 astronauts from all around the world during his 15 years in his position. He won the Silver Snoopy Award from NASA, bestowed to less than one percent of the aeronautical community, for his work on STS-112, an 11-day mission to the International Space Station by the shuttle Atlantis in October 2002. According to NASA’s website, “NASA’S Astronaut Office awards the Silver Snoopy for outstanding performance to those employees who have significantly contributed to the space agency’s goals for human exploration and development of space.”
