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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.
He was the primary inventor of the mission control concept, and implemented it during Project Mercury and after, including training a cadre of controllers and creating a worldwide tracking network. He died on July 22, 2019, at age 95, just two days after the 50th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 landing on the Moon.
Christopher C. Kraft, Jr., whose full name was Christopher Columbus Kraft, created the concept of NASA’s Mission Control and developed its organization, operational procedures and culture, then made it a critical element of the success of the nation’s human spaceflight programs.
The Christopher C. Kraft, Jr. Mission Control Center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston is the hub of human spaceflight. The building is staffed 24/7 with flight controllers who constantly monitor the International Space Station and the humans living onboard.
NASA's Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center (MCC-H, initially called Integrated Mission Control Center, or IMCC), also known by its radio callsign, Houston, is the facility at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, that manages flight control for the United States human space program, currently involving astronauts ...
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.
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.
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.
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...
A legendary figure at the Johnson Space Center and across the agency, Kraft once said he set up mission control to monitor spacecraft systems, interact with astronauts in space and to stand...
Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr.—one of NASA's founding engineers, its first flight director, and a key architect of the Apollo and space shuttle programs—has died at the age of 95.
By age 20, Kraft was a Tech graduate and a man with a job at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). Kraft went on from an early position as a flight test engineer to becoming flight director, and eventually developing the US version of a mission control center.
Kraft was among the earliest employees of NASA and designed mission control and other components of the program. He became head of the Johnson Space Center and oversaw the birth of the space...
Christopher C. Kraft, Jr. created the concept of NASA’s Mission Control and developed its organization, operational procedures and culture, then made it a critical element of the success of the nation’s human spaceflight programs.
Kraft '44, NASA’s first flight director and a pioneer who led multiple space missions, passed away this week in Houston at 95 years old. Across the nation, he is remembered as the face of NASA and father of the mission control center, which he created to communicate with spacecraft in orbit.
Chris Kraft, NASA’s first flight director, died Monday, two days after the agency celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, according to NASA. He was 95.
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.
Christopher “Chris” Columbus Kraft , Jr., best known as Flight Director during the first decade of the agency’s activity, is often credited with the design of NASA ’s control centers. 5 The first American space that was dedicated to tracking space capsule movements was called the Mercury Control Center (MCC ), and it was built in a ...
Christopher C. Kraft, Jr., who died July 22, 2019, created the concept of NASA's Mission Control and developed its organization, operational procedures and culture, then made it a critical...
Flight: My Life in Mission Control. Paperback – February 26, 2002. by Christopher Kraft (Author) 4.7 196 ratings. See all formats and editions. In his New York Times bestseller, Chris Kraft delivers an unforgettable account of his life in Mission Control.
Christopher C. Kraft, Jr. From an aeronautical research engineer at NACA Langley Aeronautical Laboratory to NASA Johnson Space Center Director, learn about Chris Kraft's long NASA career. Read his biography. NASA officials gather around a console in the Mission Operations Control Room during Apollo 16.
One of the architects of the U.S. space program recalls his most exciting moments at mission control as he guided heroes like Alan Shepard and John Glenn on their historic missions.
Christopher C. Kraft, Jr., who died July 22, 2019, created the concept of NASA’s Mission Control and developed its organization, operational procedures and culture, then made it a critical element of the success of the nation’s human spaceflight programs.