Amy Marasia

Amy Marasia is the NASA spacecraft assembly branch lead in the Orion Production Operations in Exploration Ground Systems at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a position she has held since March 2020.

Her primary responsibilities are to provide team leadership and operations management for assembly, integration, and production of the Orion spacecraft; to develop, implement, and manage processes for technical review and endorsement of the Orion spacecraft; to perform assessments and analyses of spacecraft assembly processes, schedules, and multi-flow interdependencies; to lead and integrate spacecraft assembly team strategic plans and activities in support of mission goals and objectives; and to interface and communicate with program management on spacecraft production progress, issues, and milestones.

Experience

Marasia joined NASA at Johnson Space Center in Houston in 2004 as a flight systems operations engineer working in the Mission Operations Directorate Propulsion Systems group that controlled and managed operations of the orbital maneuvering system and reaction control system for the Space Shuttle Program.

In 2009, she became lead of the propulsion systems group with responsibilities including planning, developing, and directing real-time propulsion operations for human spaceflight; developing and analyzing concepts and procedures for propulsion hardware and software; managing propulsion flight control personnel staffing, assignments, and mission console performance evaluations; and performing assessments of propulsion system capabilities, anomaly investigations, and hardware and software upgrades. Marasia supported 44 Space Transportation System missions serving as lead propulsion officer for four of those missions and ascent/entry propulsion officer for nine.

In October 2011, Marasia accepted a temporary duty assignment working as a test engineer in the Lockheed Martin Assembly, Test, and Launch Operations organization at Kennedy. She supported test engineering, ground processing, and post-landing de-servicing of the Orion spacecraft for Exploration Flight Test 1 (EFT-1) through development, execution, and validation of test procedures for spacecraft hardware and electrical ground support equipment and through Test and Launch Control Center support of spacecraft system tests and commodity servicing and de-servicing.

In 2016, Marasia transferred to Kennedy as a spacecraft operations engineer in the Orion Production Operations Office. She served as the assembly operations lead for the Artemis I crew module and crew and service module, and she was responsible for technical insight and integration with contractor and NASA programs/projects on spacecraft assembly, integration, and production operations; assessments of spacecraft assembly progress, schedule, and risks; and review and evaluation of the as-built Orion spacecraft.

Marasia also previously worked for United Space Alliance as a flight systems operations engineer in the Mission Operations Directorate Propulsion Systems group at Johnson.

Education

Marasia graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a Bachelor of Science in aerospace engineering and a master’s in business administration.

Awards

She was awarded the NASA Silver Achievement Medal in June 2018 and the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal in June 2006.

Biography last updated February 2022