{"id":168167,"date":"2021-08-02T16:58:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T20:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?migration=converted-node-472971"},"modified":"2023-07-26T15:03:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T19:03:49","slug":"kennedy-biographies-rekucki","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/people\/kennedy-biographies-rekucki\/","title":{"rendered":"Carla Rekucki"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-bio-intro maxw-full width-full padding-y-6 padding-x-3 hds-module hds-module-full wp-block-nasa-blocks-bio-intro\">\n\t<div class=\"hds-bio-intro-container grid-row grid-container grid-container-block padding-0\">\n\t\t<div class=\"grid-col-4 desktop:grid-col-3\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"hds-bio-thumbnail width-10 tablet:width-card desktop:width-card-lg\">\n\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"hds-media-background  \"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ksc-20210819-ph-kls02_0001.jpg?w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large\" alt=\"Carla Rekucki serves as a mission manager for NASA's Commercial Crew Program.\" style=\"transform: scale(1.2); transform-origin: 65% 49%; object-position: 65% 49%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ksc-20210819-ph-kls02_0001.jpg 6720w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ksc-20210819-ph-kls02_0001.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ksc-20210819-ph-kls02_0001.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ksc-20210819-ph-kls02_0001.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ksc-20210819-ph-kls02_0001.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ksc-20210819-ph-kls02_0001.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ksc-20210819-ph-kls02_0001.jpg?resize=400,267 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ksc-20210819-ph-kls02_0001.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ksc-20210819-ph-kls02_0001.jpg?resize=900,600 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ksc-20210819-ph-kls02_0001.jpg?resize=1200,800 1200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ksc-20210819-ph-kls02_0001.jpg?resize=2000,1333 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" loading=\"eager\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"grid-col-7 desktop:grid-col-9 grid-row margin-0 padding-0\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"grid-col-12 desktop:grid-col-8 margin-bottom-2 desktop:margin-bottom-0\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"margin-bottom-1 desktop:margin-bottom-2\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"display-60 display-block width-full\">Carla Rekucki<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"p-lg padding-0 margin-0 color-carbon-60\">Mission Manager<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"grid-col-12 desktop:grid-col-4\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Carla Rekucki is a mission manager within the Mission Management and Integration Office for the Commercial Crew Program (CCP) at the agency\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Her role as a mission manager is to facilitate collaboration between NASA and the commercial providers, oversee mission operations planning, and ensure the requirements and processes necessary to conduct a successful flight are in place and ready prior to launch and throughout the mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Experience<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to her role with CCP, she worked as a lead NASA test director within the Test, Launch and Recovery Management Branch of NASA\u2019s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) Program at Kennedy, which successfully tested and launched Artemis I. Most recently, Rekucki served as the assistant NASA recovery director for Artemis I, which involved safely and successfully recovering the Orion capsule utilizing a United States Navy Landing Platform Dock (LPD) ship in the Pacific Ocean. She was responsible for the leadership, planning, and execution of various milestones, integrated tests, and mission-critical operations for both launch and recovery for Artemis I and the planning for future Artemis missions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to joining NASA, Rekucki started her career at Kennedy in 2004 with United Space Alliance during the Space Shuttle Program, where she worked in flight controls and hydraulic systems. She served as the lead solid rocket booster hydraulic system engineer supporting the Space Shuttle Program and Ares 1-X for the Constellation Program, leading and integrating systems tests, problem resolution, and operations through launch countdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the shuttle program, she transitioned to Safety and Mission Assurance as a systems safety engineer supporting NASA\u2019s EGS program and many of the ground system designs that NASA utilizes today to support ground operations processing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Awards<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Rekucki has received many performance and group achievement awards throughout her years at Kennedy, as well as various others, such as NASA\u2019s Space Flight Awareness Team Award, Space Flight Awareness Launch Honoree Award, and the NASA Ares 1-X Mission Manager Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Education<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Rekucki graduated from Florida Institute of Technology in 2005 with a Bachelor of Science in space science. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Personal<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Rekucki currently resides in Cocoa Beach, Florida, with her husband and two sons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>Biography last updated February 2023<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carla Rekucki is a mission manager within the Mission Management and Integration Office for the Commercial Crew Program (CCP) at the agency\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 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