Franklin Keith Harris of Gloucester, a researcher at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, recently received a Silver Snoopy award from NASA.

The Silver Snoopy is an honor given to NASA employees and contractors across the agency for outstanding achievements related to human flight safety or mission success. The award depicts Snoopy, a character from the “Peanuts” comic strip created by Charles Schulz.

The award is given by NASA astronauts as it represents their own recognition of excellence, a release said. The Silver Snoopy is one of several awards overseen by the Space Flight Awareness program at NASA. Less than 1 percent of the agency’s employees receive it annually, making it a special honor.

Harris earned the award for his contributions on Development Flight Instrumentation Flush Air Data System for the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) Project Experimental Flight Test-1.

Harris was among five NASA Langley researchers who received the award ...