HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) - A NASA scientist from Alabama is being presented with a presidential award.
Marshall Space Flight Center astrophysicist Jonathan Cirtain is among more than 90 people President Obama is honoring with the 2010 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
The awards are the highest honor the government awards to scientists and engineers beginning their careers.
Cirtain is being recognized for his research using innovative instrument designs to observe solar and space plasma. The scientist tells a NASA interviewer he was always interested in sports in school but got involved in science as a promise to his father.
