RELEASE NO: 98-157

MARKLEY RECEIVES MOE I. SCHNEEBAUM AWARD FOR ENGINEERING

Dr. F. Landis Markley is the recipient of Goddard’s 1998 Moe I. Schneebaum Memorial Award for Engineering. Markley was selected for the award based on his pioneering contributions to spacecraft guidance, navigation and control, and for his innovative, low cost spacecraft system designs that have enabled revolutionary science paybacks for NASA and the nation.

Markley’s most substantial contribution involved improvements in safety, reliability and performance of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (HST). He was also a key contributor in understanding and correcting solar array-induced jitter on HST. His overall contributions in attitude and orbit algorithms have contributed significantly to the success of current and future Goddard spacecraft.

Born in Philadelphia and raised in Cheltenham, Pa., Markley graduated from Cheltenham High School in 1957. He received a bachelor’s degree in engineering physics from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., in 1962 and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1967. Markley completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Maryland, College Park prior to teaching physics for six years at Williams College in Williamstown, Mass.

The scientist is the recipient of numerous NASA awards, including the Exceptional Service Medal and is the author of over 30 technical publications. Earlier this year, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics elected Markley to the prestigious position of Fellow.

The Moe I. Schneebaum Memorial Award is dedicated to the memory of Schneebaum who joined Goddard in 1958 and served as chief of the Earth Observations and Engineering Division. Schneebaum was instrumental in the development of cameras for the early meteorological satellite program. Known for his creativeness and vision, Schneebaum played a key role in the development of several instruments that were successfully flown aboard the Landsat series of Earth observation satellites.

Markley has been a Goddard employee for thirteen years and is assigned to the Guidance, Navigation and Control Systems Engineering Branch of the Applied Engineering and Technology Directorate.

Markley and his wife, Gail, reside in Columbia, Md., and have a daughter, Michelle Markley, who is a graduate student in geology at the University of Minnesota.