NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Mr. Rotter began his career with NASA at the Johnson Space Center in 1963, where he served as a mechanical and stress engineer for the Flight Acceleration Branch/Crew and Thermal Systems Division manned centrifuge, drop tower, and vacuum chambers and served as test director for these facilities. In 1968, he moved to Apollo ECS as a subsystem engineer for the entire Apollo mission thru the ASTP Project. In 1975, he moved to the Shuttle Orbiter ECLSS engineering group and served as multiple ECLSS subsystems manager covering all four ECLSS subsystems. During this time he was the Orbiter Project Manager and NASA Point of Contact (POC) for the two Orbiter Tunnel Adapter for the design and implementation.

In 1988 he became the Orbiter ECLSS Engineering Work Package Manager/Division Chief Engineer for all ECLSS, Crew Equipment, Crew Escape System, and ECLSS mission and payload integration (payload accommodations). He was the ECLSS Engineering Team Lead for the Extended Duration Orbiter designs (JSC Engr Lead for 28 & 90 days Orbiter studies and for manned tending Station), Orbiter Docking System/External Airlock, the MIR Phase 1 Program, and Orbiter ISS MPLM cooling and middeck payload locker cooling systems. Served as the MIR Phase 1 NASA Team Lead/POC for the MIR Spectra leak location. In 2002, Mr. Rotter became the Crew and Thermal Systems Division Engineering Manager for life support and active thermal systems for the Space Launch Initiative Program and then the Orbital Space Plane Team Leader for life support and active thermal control teams.

Mr. Rotter has a B.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A & M University.