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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
Gene KRANZ
Eugene F. Kranz, flight director, is shown at his console on May 30, 1965
Gene KRANZ
Failure is not an option
Gene KRANZ
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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Walter KAPRYAN
Space Age pioneer Dr. Walter J. Kapryan, the Apollo Launch Director at Kennedy Space Center from 1969 to 1975
Walter KAPRYAN
Space Age pioneer Dr. Walter J. Kapryan, the Apollo Launch Director at Kennedy Space Center from 1969 to 1975
Walter KAPRYAN
Walter Kapryan was the highest ranking authority when it came to all manned spaceflight launch operations from Apollo 12 to ASTP. During the earlier Apollo missions he worked as the deputy director before taking over shortly after Apollo 11
In the heat of the Space Race, some NASA managers ruled by fear and intimidation. Walt Kapryan was not one of them. As Kennedy Space Center’s launch operations director from the second moon landing mission until the shuttle program's start, “Kappy,” as he was known, treated colleagues so decently that rather than fearing rebuke for a mistake, they simply didn’t want to disappoint him.
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Principal designer of the first and second Sputniks and Vostok manned spaceships
Oleg IVANOVSKY
Oleg Genrikhovich Ivanovsky (January 18, 1922 – September 18, 2014) was a Soviet engineer, and pioneer of spacecraft construction.
Designer-General Sergei Korolev recruited him into the Soviet space program. Ivanovsky rose to chief designer at OKB-1, Korolev's design bureau. Among other things he was deputy principal designer of the first and second Sputniks, principal designer of Vostok manned spaceships, and creator of space probes. Ivanovsky personally helped Yuri Gagarin mount the gantry and climb into Vostok 1 and helped rebolt the hatch after Gagarin complained that it had not been closed and sealed correctly. He was said to be the last person to shake Gagarin's hand before the Vostok 1 flight.
Following the failure of the USSR’s manned lunar programme (failed launch of 4 giant N1 rockets), Oleg Ivanovsky even saved face for his country by developing the Luna probes that would bring back a few grams of soil samples from the Moon. Oleg Ivanovsky also worked on the exploration of the Red Planet and was confident that his small rover on board the Mars 3 spacecraft in 1971 would probably manage to deploy, making it the first object sent by man that would have moved around on the fourth planet. We know that Mars 3 reached the ground, but the spacecraft ceased to emit a signal several seconds after its landing.
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Astronauts flying from earth to the space station is always a fantastic story, as long as watching crew of astronauts flying to the moon. You can also enjoy orbital space flight to mars, launch of the space shuttle or Alan musk and spacex falcon launch. If you like Apollo launch from kennedy space center, or unmaned spaceflight to saturn and jupiter, you will also like Apollo 11 landing on the moon before the soviet. But you know that russian space program won the fist space flight, robotic and human spaceflight exploration with outer space signals from roscosmos, worked on space travel and colonization flight of the first cosmonaut youri gagarin and alexey leonov launch of vostok spacecraft from kazakhstan s baikonur spaceport .
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