NASA's famed Chris Kraft has died at age 95

[gary]

Originally Posted by New York Times, 22 July 2019

Christopher C. Kraft Jr., the legendary founder of NASA’s mission control, who directed America’s first piloted orbital flights, oversaw the Apollo 11 lunar landing and was director of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, died on Monday in Houston, two days after the 50th anniversary of that historic moment on the moon. He was 95.

Obituary :-
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/22/s...dead-nasa.html

In 2011, NASA named the Mission Control Center building in Houston the
"Christopher C. Kraft, Jr. Mission Control Center".

[Startrek (Martin)]

Another pioneer of the Project Mercury era leaves us
A great leader who had the weight of the world on his shoulders on so many missions , the “rock” of the US space Program in the 60’s and early 70’s
RIP

[Rainmaker (Matt)]

Originally Posted by Startrek

Another pioneer of the Project Mercury era leaves us
A great leader who had the weight of the world on his shoulders on so many missions , the “rock” of the US space Program in the 60’s and early 70’s
RIP

Well said

[pfitzgerald (Paul)]

Blue skies and a green board.

RIP