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Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr. (February 28, 1924 – July 22, 2019) was an American aerospace and NASA engineer who was instrumental in establishing the agency's Mission Control Center and shaping its organization and culture.
Jul 23, 2019 · Remembering Legendary Flight Director Chris Kraft. Christopher C. Kraft Jr. put Mission Control on the map and got his name put on it for his efforts. Kraft died Monday, two days after the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. He was 95.
Sep 29, 2021 · In the early days of America’s space program, NASA’s first flight director, Christopher C. Kraft, developed the concept of a mission control center to monitor human spaceflights. The first control center at the Cape Kennedy Air Force Station, now the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, in Florida monitored the Mercury and early Gemini missions.
Jan 19, 2018 · JSC's Mission Control — now formally known as the Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center — has helped plan, support and operate every NASA human spaceflight mission since...
Sep 29, 2021 · On April 4, 2011, the building was renamed the “Christopher C. Kraft, Jr. Mission Control Center” in honor of the man who created the concepts still in use today in human spaceflight control. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, the historic MOCR-2 underwent a two-year restoration to return the room to a ...
Kraft in Mission Control in July 1965. NASA. Christopher C. Kraft Jr. was a NASA flight director who worked many breakthrough missions. In 1972, he was named director of what would...
Jul 23, 2019 · Chris Kraft, NASA's first flight director who invented the concept of Mission Control, has died. He was 95. Kraft's death in Houston on Monday (July 22) was confirmed by NASA. "America...
