Marie Reed
Assembly Operations Lead Artemis III, Orion Production Operations Office, Exploration Ground Systems
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Marie Reed is the spacecraft assembly operation lead in the Orion Production Operations Office for the Orion Program within the Exploration Ground Systems Program at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a position she has held since September 2015.
In her current position, she led the assembly and integration of the Artemis I service module elements, including coordination with the European Space Agency/Airbus for assembly and integration with the crew module adapter (CMA)/spacecraft adapter cone and fairings, as part of the first Orion spacecraft returning NASA to the Moon. Reed continues to support the Orion Program as the Artemis III CMA assembly lead, and she also serves as the project manager for the activation of the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout (O&C) Building West Altitude Chamber. The chamber will support the vacuum testing of the Orion crew and service modules for Artemis II in spring 2023.
Experience
Reed has more than 33 years of experience with NASA in support of the Space Shuttle, Constellation, Center Planning and Development, Orion, and Exploration Ground Systems programs. She began her career in September 1988 as Launch Complex 39A power system engineer for the Space Shuttle Program. Up to 2009, she continued to support the Space Shuttle Program in various positions, including video engineer, project manager, and over 10 years as a supervisor.
Reed also served as a technical assistant in the Engineering Directorate at Stennis Space Center for six months in 2009. In November 2009, she moved to technical assistant to the Office of Chief Engineer at Kennedy followed by supervisor for Program Control and Integration in Kennedy’s Center Planning and Development Office from 2010 to September 2015, where she was instrumental in the transition of the center to a multi-user spaceport.
Education
She earned a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering in 1987 from the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now called the University of Louisiana Lafayette).
Awards
Reed is the recipient of numerous NASA achievement awards, including the distinguished NASA Silver Snoopy Award in April 2000. She also received the O&C West Altitude Chamber Reactivation Team group achievement award in September 2019, and the NASA Silver Dollar Group Award in 2015 for her leadership on the Thermal Protection System Facility Retention Tiger Team.
She was nominated for Outstanding Woman Engineer of the Year from the Society of Women Engineers in March 2004, and was selected for and participated in the NASA Leadership Development Program, also in 2004.
Personal
Reed’s hometown is New Orleans, Louisiana. She resides in Indialantic with her husband and accomplished screenplay writer, Brent. They have one son, Sergeant Gordon F. Reed, U.S. Marine Corps.
Biography last updated June 2022