Medals and Major Awards: NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal

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1 Name: Dale Curtis Ferguson Telephone: AFRL Birthplace: Dayton, Ohio, USA Title: Principal Physicist, AFRL RVBXR, Lead for Spacecraft Charging Science and Technology, Capability Area Technical Lead for Affordable, Survivable Spacecraft Previous Titles: Test & Verification Lead, Constellation Program Environments and Constraints Systems Integration Group, & Co-Chair, Constellation Program Natural and Induced Environments Test Integration Group; Acting Chief, NASA Glenn Research Center, Space Environments and Effects Branch Education: Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH 9/66 to 6/70 B.S., Astronomy, Magna cum Laude, Nassau Prize in Astronomy University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 9/70 to 12/74 Ph.D., Astronomy Employment Experience, College Teaching: University of Arizona, Louisiana State University, New York University, Southeast Missouri State University, Baldwin-Wallace College, Employment Experience, Research: University of Arizona (Graduate Student), Max-Planck-Institut f. Radioastronomie (Postdoctoral Fellow), Arecibo Observatory (Staff Member), Case Western Reserve University (Contractor), NASA Glenn Research Center, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, AFRL Battlespace Environment Division, 2009-present Medals and Major Awards: NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal

2 NASA GRC Steven V. Szabo Award for Excellence in Engineering (GRC s highest engineering award) - Space Station Plasma Contactor Team 2013 AIAA Associate Fellow 2013 AFRL/RVB Guenter Loeser Memorial Lectureship Publications: Over 250 papers, presentations, and conference publications, (>50 in refereed journals), plus: Ph.D. Thesis: XEROX University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI (1974), "The Emission from Pulsars: I. Generalized Single-Vector Polarization Model. II. A Model for the Sub-Pulse and Integrated Pulse Behavior." NASA Employment Roles: NASA GRC Physicist, Space Environment Effects Branch Acting Branch Chief, Space Environment Effects Branch Deputy Branch Chief, Space Environment Effects Branch Group Lead for Space Environments, Photovoltaic and Space Environment Effects Branch NASA MSFC - Systems Engineer, Systems Engineering and Integration Branch Co-Lead, Space Environment and Effects (SEE) Project Lead for Space Environmental Interactions, Prometheus Project Test & Verification Lead, Constellation Program E&C SIG Chair, Constellation Program Induced Environments TIG Co-Chair, CxP Natural and Induced Environments TIG Space Flight Experiment Principal Investigator Roles: PIX-II (Plasma Interactions Experiment II), Co-Principal Investigator (P.I.) with Norman T. Grier, Successful Orbital Flight, PMG (Plasma Motor Generator), P.I. of Plasma Diagnostics, Successful Orbital Flight, SAMPIE (Solar Array Module Plasma Interactions Experiment), Shuttle Flight, PASP Plus (Photovoltaic Array Space Power Plus Diagnostics), Successful Orbital Flight, WAE (Wheel Abrasion Experiment), Successful Landing and Operation on Mars Pathfinder

3 Sojourner Rover, FPP (Floating Potential Probe), Successfully Deployed and Operated on ISS, Major Technical Impacts: Advocated use of Plasma Contactor on ISS to prevent disastrous arcing effects Confirmed adequacy of ISS Plasma Contactor design through analysis of SAMPIE and PASP Plus data Tested operation of ISS Plasma Contactor on ISS with Floating Potential Probe (Principal Investigator) Designed, built, and delivered flight hardware to Mars Pathfinder Sojourner Rover (Principal Investigator) Discovered electrostatic charging and material abrasion on Martian surface (WAE experiment on Mars Pathfinder Sojourner Rover) Consultant to Loral and EOS-AM1 on high voltage solar array arcing, resulting in implementation of changes saving millions of dollars and NASA embarrassment Proposed important changes to Deep Space 1 solar arrays to prevent plasma arc failure of power system - changes implemented, flight successful Led high voltage testing of SS/Loral, EOS-AM1, Boeing Solar Tile, and Entech-AEC-Able solar arrays demonstrated 1000 V operation in simulated space plasma Member of Space Shuttle Columbia Debris Assessment Working Group (DAWG) Voting Member, ISO Standards Committee on Space Environments (ISO TC20/SC14/WG4) Co-Chair of national Space Environments and Effects (SEE) Program Plasmas and Fields Working Group Co-author of Low Earth Orbit Spacecraft Charging Design Guidelines, NASA-STD-4005 (Low Earth Orbit Spacecraft Charging Design Standard), NASA-HDBK-4006 (Low Earth Orbit Spacecraft Charging Design Handbook) and ANSI/AIAA S-115 (Low Earth Orbit Spacecraft Charging Design Standard Requirement and Associated Handbook) Chair, AIAA Atmospheric and Space Environments Technical Committee, Space Environment Interactions Lead, Prometheus Program Test and Verification Lead, Constellation Program Environments and Constraints Systems Integration Group Chair, Constellation Environments Test Integration Group Lead Author of Lunar Sections to Constellation Program Natural Environments Definition for

4 Design Major Contributor, ISO Standard on Solar Array ESD Testing (ISO 11221) Helped build-up Spacecraft Charging and Instrument Calibration Lab at Kirtland AFB Lead, US Round-Robin Experiment on Plasma Expansion Speed Books: 1. Introductory Astronomy Exercises, (c) 1990 by Wadsworth Publ. Co., Belmont, CA. A collection of laboratory exercises for introductory astronomy college courses. 2. Introductory Astronomy Exercises, 2nd Edition, (c) 2001 by Brooks/Cole Publ. Co., Pacific Grove, CA. A revised and modernized collection of laboratory exercises for introductory astronomy college courses. 3. Environmental Interactions Considerations for Space Station and Solar Array Design. LeRC, 1987, NASA Lewis Research Center. 4. Science and Technology Requirements Document, Solar Array Module Plasma Interaction Experiment (SAMPIE), Shuttle Flight Experiment. LeRC, Final Version, January, Photovoltaic Array Space Power Plus Diagnostics (PASP Plus) Experiment Final Report, Phillips Lab., PL-TR , March, T.L. Morton and D.C. Ferguson, 1997, Atomic Oxygen Exposure of Power System and Other Spacecraft Materials: Results of the EOIM-3 Experiment, NASA TM Spacecraft Charging, 2011, Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics, Vol. 237, Shu T. Lai, ed., AIAA, contributor. Guidelines and Standards: 1. Low Earth Orbit Spacecraft Charging Design Guidelines. MSFC SEE Program, 2003, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. 2. NASA-STD-4005(I) (Low Earth Orbit Spacecraft Charging Design Standard, interim version) 3. NASA-STD-4005 (Low Earth Orbit Spacecraft Charging Design Standard) 4. NASA-HDBK-4006 (Low Earth Orbit Spacecraft Charging Design Handbook) 5. ISO (Space Systems Space Solar Panels Spacecraft Charging Induced - Electrostatic Discharge Test Methods), contributor 6. ANSI/AIAA S-115 (Low Earth Orbit Spacecraft Charging Design Standard Requirement and Associated Handbook)

5 7. ISO WD19923 (Space Systems - Spacecraft charging potential estimation in the worst case environments), contributor 8. ISO N1100 (Space Systems Spacecraft Charging Earth Orbit)