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Apr 15, 2011 · Dr. Robert R. Gilruth (right), MSC Director, sits with Dr. Christopher C. Kraft Jr., MSC director of flight operations, at his flight operations director console in the Mission Control Center ...
152. Chris Kraft, an aeronautical engineer who helped shape the success of NASA’s manned space missions in the 1960s as the godfather of the ground-based Mission Control organization, died July ...
NASA. Christopher C. Kraft Jr. was a NASA flight director who worked many breakthrough missions. In 1972, he was named director of what would become the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. He ...
Aug 5, 2014 · Christopher C. Kraft, Jr. Excerpt from his oral history transcript about his time working as an aeronautical engineer for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). Kraft: When you study aeronautical engineering in 1944, when I graduated, what we were studying was basic aerodynamics, basic physics, basic things that you would ...
During the Apollo program, he worked in mission management and planning before becoming the Director of the Manned Spaceflight Center (now Johnson Space Center) in 1972. He retired from NASA in 1982, but continued working as a consultant for major aerospace companies. In 2011, the Mission Control Building at JSC was named in his honor.
Jun 22, 2019 · NASA. Christopher C. Kraft speaks at the dedication ceremony naming the Johnson Space Center’s Mission Control Center in Houston for him on April 14, 2011. Kraft, 87, was NASA's first director ...
Aug 6, 2012 · Houston, Texas – 6 August 2012. Wright: Today is August 6th, 2012. This oral history interview is being conducted in Houston, Texas with Dr. Christopher Kraft, former Center Director of the Johnson Space Center. Interviewer is Rebecca Wright, assisted by Jennifer Ross-Nazzal. Kraft: The [Space] Shuttles were made in those Management Council ...
