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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 ...
Sep 27, 2023 · 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.
Jun 28, 2024 · 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.
Sep 29, 2021 · On April 4, 2011, the building was renamed the “Christopher C. Kraft, Jr. Mission Control Center,” in honor of the man who created the concepts still in use today in human spaceflight control. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, the historic MOCR 2 underwent a two-year restoration to return the room ...
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.
Jul 23, 2019 · Chris Kraft, NASA's first flight director who invented the concept of Mission Control, died on July 22, 2019. He was 95. "America has truly lost a national treasure with the passing of one of...
Jul 23, 2019 · 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.
As director of flight operations, CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS KRAFT JR. was at a console in the back row of the mission control center, looking down at his team of flight controllers, led by the flight director.
Sep 28, 2017 · 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.
Jul 24, 2019 · Even as Kraft continued as flight director on every Mercury mission, he helped design the new Mission Control Center in Texas, now named after him. The second two-astronaut mission, Gemini IV in June 1965, became the first controlled from there.
