B.S. Vanderbilt University Electrical Engineering 1966

NASA Exceptional Service Medal, 1999

MSFC Center Director Commendation, 2001, 2003

Engineering Directorate Technology Achievement Award, 2001

NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal, 2004

Roe, Fred, and Blaser, Bob; “A Blueprint for Autonomous Rendezvous and Docking”, AIAA 2005 Space Automation Symposium, Naval Research Laboratory, March 30-31,2005.     

Roe, F. D., Howard, R. T., and Murphy, L., “Automated Rendezvous and Capture System Development and Simulation for NASA,” in Proceedings of the SPIE Space Systems and Technology Conference, 2004.

Roe, F. D. and Howard, R. T., “The Successful Development of an Automated Rendezvous and Capture (AR&C) System for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration,” in proceedings of the 26th Annual American Astronautical Society Guidance and Control Conference, 2003.

Roe, Fred, Mitchell, Dan., Linner,Robert., Kelley, David L.;"Simulation Techniques for Avionics Systems An Introduction to a World Class Facility", AIAA  1996

Roe, Fred, Kelley, David L.,"MSFC Flight Robotics Laboratory Description" March 1995.

2005 - Vice President and Principal Engineer AOS

Retired Sept. 30, 2005 - Avionics Division Manager for NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

Avionics: Mr. Roe has 40 years experience with NASA. He worked in the Astrionics Laboratory in increasing areas of responsibility for many years where he was instrumental in the development and flight qualification of avionics components for flight control systems. He worked with the ST-124 guidance platform for the Saturn launch system; flight qualified the Control Moment Gyro's and Rate Gyro assemblies for the Skylab Mission and recently served as the project manager of a task to demonstrate the application of military avionics on a simulated NASA earth-to-orbit mission.

Automated Rendezvous and Docking (AR&D):  Mr. Roe provided technical management of the MSFC AR&D Program from the beginning in the mid 1980’s. As an outgrowth of the operational limitations of remotely piloted space vehicles that were identified during the OMV Program, MSFC began an internal research and development program (IR&D) to develop the key enabling technologies for the development and demonstration of an unmanned, automated rendezvous and docking capability.

AR&D Simulation and Test Facilities: Mr. Roe designed and managed the construction of the MSFC Flight Robotics Laboratory, a state of the art high fidelity, hardware in the loop (HWIL) simulation facility for the orbital operations associated with automated rendezvous and docking.

Management:  Since 1990 Mr. Roe has served as a Team Leader (15 people), Branch Manager (35 people), Group Manager (35 people) and Division Manager (65 People) for the Spacecraft and Vehicle Systems Department.  His most recent performance appraisal (May 05) rated him as “Distinguished”, the highest rating available.

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