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Chris KRAFT
the man who oversaw NASA's first steps into space
Chris KRAFT
Dr. Kraft’s life stands as a testament to his dream of exploring space.
Chris KRAFT
visionary who played an integral role in what bacame the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Chris KRAFT
Christopher Columbus "Chris" Kraft Jr. (born February 28, 1924) was a key NASA engineer and manager who created the agency's Mission Control operation. Assigned to the flight operations division, Chris Kraft became NASA's first flight director. He was on duty during such historic missions as America's first manned spaceflight, first manned orbital flight, and first spacewalk. At the beginning of the Apollo program, Kraft retired as a flight director to concentrate on management and mission planning. In 1972, he became director of the Manned Spacecraft Center (later Johnson Space Center).
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Kraft was the director of flight operations for the Apollo program until 1970 when he became the MSC deputy director in 1970. He was Director of the Johnson Space Center from January 1972 until his retirement in August 1982. He made his mark as the consummate flight planner, a role he compared to leading an orchestra. "You don't know how to play all the instruments, but you do know how to mix them all together and make it sound like music," he said. "And I suppose that's what I was doing in the early days."
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Gene KRANZ
best known for his role in directing the successful Mission Control team efforts to save the crew of Apollo 13 and also landing Apollo 11 on the moon
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Eugene F. Kranz, flight director, is shown at his console on May 30, 1965
Gene KRANZ
Failure is not an option
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Failure is not an option !
Eugene Francis "Gene" Kranz (born August 17, 1933) is an engineer, a retired NASA Flight Director and manager. Kranz served as a Flight Director, the successor to NASA founding Flight Director Chris Kraft, during the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs, and is best known for his role in directing the successful Mission Control team efforts to save the astronauts of Apollo 13, which later became the subject story of a major motion picture of the same name, and serving as flight director during the first lunar landing of Apollo 11 which put a man on the moon for the fist time. He is also noted for his trademark close-cut flattop hairstyle, and the wearing of dapper "mission" white vest (waistcoat), of different styles and materials made by his wife, Marta Kranz, during missions for which he acted as Flight Director at the Space Center during historical spacefflight.
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Of the great many heroes involved in the history of the space program, NASA flight director Gene Kranz time and again distinguished himself as remarkable leader for all flight controllers. His oversight of the dramatic Apollo 13 mission at the johnson space center is perhaps his most well known achievement, but it was under his watch that NASA rededicated itself after the tragedy of Apollo 1, achieved its aim of a lunar landing on Apollo 11 , and took some of the first steps towards a long term human presence in space with Skylab.
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