Christopher C. Kraft
Christopher Columbus Kraft, Jr. , also Chris Kraft , (born February 28, 1924 in Phoebus , Virginia - † July 22, 2019 in Houston , Texas ) was an American aerospace engineer and NASA manager.
Life
Since 1959, Kraft has been instrumental in the preparation and management of important US space programs ( Mercury , Gemini , Apollo , Skylab , Apollo-Soyuz test project, space shuttle ). From 1972 until his retirement in 1982, he was the NASA director of the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston . He was also instrumental in shaping NASA's Mission Control. Because of this involvement, the Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center , also simply called Houston on radio communications , was named after him in 2011 .
Fonts
- Flight. My Life in Mission Control . 2001, ISBN 0-525-94571-7 (autobiography)
literature
- Christopher C. Kraft Jr. , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 20/1981 of May 4, 1981, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Web links
Commons : Christopher C. Kraft - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- NASA biography and obituary
- Image of the Day Gallery, NASA: Christopher Kraft with Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins in July 2009
- Mission Control Operations Video of a lecture at MIT from 2005. Kraft talks about his time at NASA and the problems they faced.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kraft, Christopher C. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kraft, Christopher Columbus Jr. (full name); Kraft, Chris (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American aerospace engineer and NASA manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 28, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Phoebus , Virginia |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 22, 2019 |
| Place of death | Houston , Texas |