Reggie Martin is the lead integrator expert for the Kennedy Ground Control Subsystem (KGCS) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In this role, he is responsible for managing the research, design, development and implementation of all of the hardware and software interfaces. He serves as the End Item Control Group lead, which involves designing and coordinating the primary interface between KGCS and the Launch Control Center firing room.
The work includes overseeing the fabrication and installation verification of all of the equipment. He works with the facility integrators and contractors to schedule and verify equipment installations and ensures that all KGCS interfaces to each of the 32 support subsystems are properly configured at the Multi-Payload Processing Facility (MPPF), the Launch Abort System Facility, the Vehicle Assembly Building, the mobile launcher and Launch Pad 39B. All of these facilities are integral to the processing, assembly and checkout of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft for Exploration Mission-1, deep space missions and the Journey to Mars.
He started working at Kennedy in May 2006.
Recently, Martin received one of NASA’s highest honors, the NASA Silver Snoopy Award, for the excellent job he did representing KGCS and coordinating with the center’s IT security team. His efforts helped the group achieve the Authorization for Operation for KGCS during hazardous operations at the MPPF.
He was selected employee of the month for Kennedy’s Engineering Directorate in December 2015 and was nominated for Employee of the Year in 2016.
Martin attended Wheaton North High School in Illinois from 1982-1984. He then went to Baker High School and Bryant Area Vocation School in Mobile, Alabama, where his electronics career began, from 1984-1986.
He earned an Associate of Science in engineering from the College of DuPage in Glenn Ellyn, Illinois, in 1998 and a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago in 2001.
He is a decorated serviceman. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1987-1993, including time on the USS John F. Kennedy. He is a veteran of the Desert Shield/Desert Storm operations in the Gulf War and a Bosnian War veteran.
His recognitions include Operations Department Sailor of the Year in 1991, USS John F. Kennedy Petty Officer of the Quarter, also in 1991, and several additional Operations Department Petty Officer of the Quarter awards.
He currently resides in Rockledge, Florida, with his wife Natalie, and their two children, Nezell, 14, and Immanuel, 12.
His father, Lovell Martin, resides in Troy, Alabama.
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Amber Philman
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
321-867-2468
amber.n.philman@nasa.gov