Christopher C. Kraft Jr., the legendary founder of NASA’s mission control, who directed America’s first piloted orbital flights, oversaw the Apollo 11 lunar landing and was director of the Johnson ...
WASHINGTON -- Chris Kraft, the founder of NASA's mission control, died Monday, just two days after the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. He was 95. Kraft made key decisions on launches ...
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr., a Hampton native and a pioneering engineer who became known as “The Father of NASA Mission Control.” Monday, the ...
HOUSTON—Christopher C. Kraft Jr., who fostered the development of NASA’s Mission Control at the dawn of U.S. human spaceflight, died here July 22, two days after the 50th anniversary of the historic ...
HOUSTON — NASA's first flight director says he regrets that the shuttle program is coming to an end because he believes it's the finest spacecraft ever built. Christopher C. Kraft said after a Johnson ...
Dr. Chris Kraft, NASA's first flight director, passed away July 22nd. Christopher Columbus Kraft was NASA's first flight director. Yes, that was his REAL first and middle name. He is credited with ...
And that is how Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr. — the full name seems appropriate —became one of the people who not only put people in space, but also put them on the moon — and got them all back alive ...
Two distinguished names have been added to the list of NASA’s first generation of explorers honored as Ambassadors of Exploration. They include a man considered the architect of Mission Control, ...
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