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Subject: [NASA HQ News] NASA Administrator Remembers Mission Control Pioneer
Chris Kraft
July 22, 2019
RELEASE 19-061
NASA Administrator Remembers Mission Control Pioneer Chris Kraft
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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.
Credits: NASA
The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine on the
passing of Chris Kraft, who died Monday in Houston at the age of 95:
America has truly lost a national treasure today with the passing of one of
NASAs earliest pioneers flight director Chris Kraft. We send our deepest
condolences to the Kraft family.
Chris was one of the core team members that helped our nation put humans in
space and on the Moon, and his legacy is immeasurable. Chris engineering
talents were put to work for our nation at the National Advisory Committee
for Aeronautics, before NASA even existed, but it was his legendary work to
establish mission control as we know it for the earliest crewed space
flights that perhaps most strongly advanced our journey of discovery. From
that home base, Americas achievements in space were heard across the globe,
and our astronauts in space were anchored to home even as they accomplished
unprecedented feats.
Once comparing his complex work as a flight director to a conductors,
Kraft said, The conductor can't play all the instruments--he may not even
be able to play any one of them. But, he knows when the first violin should
be playing, and he knows when the trumpets should be loud or soft, and when
the drummer should be drumming. He mixes all this up and out comes music.
That's what we do here.
Chris was flight director at some of the most iconic moments of space
history, as humans first orbited the Earth and stepped outside of an
orbiting spacecraft. For his work, he was awarded the NASA Outstanding
Leadership Medal by President John F. Kennedy. Chris later led the Johnson
Space Center, known then as the Manned Spacecraft Center, as our human
exploration work reached for new heights following the Apollo Program. We
stand on his shoulders as we reach deeper into the solar system, and he will
always be with us on those journeys.
For more information about Chris Kraft, visit:
<https://www.nasa.gov/chris-kraft> https://www.nasa.gov/chris-kraft
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