Cline Frasier
Cline Frasier was educated at
MIT, gaining an SB in Mechanical Engineering. After military service in the US Army, he
was employed by the Sandia Corporation. He moved to NASA in 1962, working in the Flight
Crew Systems Division at the Johnson Space Center. He was also a frequent visitor to
Cambridge where he was responsible for liaison between MIT/IL and NASA. In particular, he
played a key role in the decision to include the autopilot into the digital computer
aboard the Command Module, thus making it possible to reduce the number of computers from
two to one. Frasier became the NASA program manager for the primary guidance and control
system in 1964(?). After Apollo, he moved on to the Space Shuttle program, leading the
guidance and flight control group. He was head of NASA's electronic technology task force
which inspired NASA's fly-by-wire program, which used an AGC in an F-8 aircraft.
Since NASA, he has moved into strategic management consulting, a field he is still engaged in.
Cline Frasier participated in AGC project conferences 1 and 3.
