Nikolai Anfimov, the Chairman of the Roskosmos Advisory Expert Council awarded Dr. Heimerdinger with a Certificate of International Cooperation for his work as a member of a joint US/Russia commission for the joint space operations. Dr. Heimerdinger was initially appointed in 1995 as a member of NASA Advisory Council’s Task Force for Shuttle/Mir Operations.  This Task Force became the Joint US/Russia International Space Station Operational Readiness and Safety Task Force to address NASA and Russian Federal Space Agency level issues associated with the assembly of the International Space Station.