Caley Burke

2022 Professional Practice Hall of Fame Member

Carl Margraf

Education

- BSAAE ’05, Purdue University

- MS ’10, MIT

Professional Career

Caley Burke is an aerospace engineer for NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP). She analyses the trajectories of the rockets launching NASA and NOAA robotic spacecraft missions. She is currently the flight design analyst for the proposed Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission and will be part of the team to select the rocket for the Sample retrieval Lander (SLR). In 2019, she was the Ascent Lead for the Integrated Performance on the team that launched astronauts to the International Space Station on the Boeing CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX Dragon capsules, respectively, on Atlas V and Falcon 9 rockets. Burke received a NASA Silver Achievement Medal with the LSP Flight Dynamics Team for qualifying Pegasus XL flight software for NuSTAR. She performed a flight controls study for the upcoming Solar Probe Plus mission with a NASA Engineering and Safety Center team.

Co-op Alumnus

- Pathways Intern at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) with the International Space Station (ISS) in 2002 and transferred to NASA LSP in 2003.

- Leads educational outreach and speaking events for NASA.