Background Information, Images, and Other Media
General Biographical Information for Dr. Kraft
- Air and Space article of March, 2010
- NASA 50th Anniversary Moment podcast
- NASA’s Ambassador of Exploration Award:
- “Flight: My Life in Mission Control,” by Dr. Kraft, Dutton, 2001, 370pp., ISBN-10: 0525945717, ISBN-13: 978-0525945710
NACA
Sputnik
NASA info:
- http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/gal100/sputnik.html
- http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/online/ootw/1957/Sputnik.cfm
- http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1957-001B
- Collins, Martin (ed.), 2007, After Sputnik: 50 Years of the Space Age, Smithsonian Books/HarperCollins, ISBN 978-0-06-089781-9, 256 pages
Mercury
MR-3 Flight:
- This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury, NASA SP-4201
- NASA Project Mercury info
- NSSDC webpage on MR-3
Mission Control
Decision Points
Friendship 7 Heat Shield: NASM Friendship 7 pages
- http://www.nasm.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?id=A19670176000
- http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/gal100/friend7.html
- Gemini 6 Abort on Pad
- JSC Gemini 6 images
- Gemini 8 Thruster Failure: Gemini 8 capsule
- Gemini 8 thruster
- Apollo 1 fire: NASM Apollo 1 page
- Centennial of Flight page
- Apollo 1 Memorial Foundation site
- NASA GRIN images of Apollo 1
- Jay Barbree’s MSNBC 40th anniversary piece
- CBS News 40th anniversary piece
- NASA SP-350 chapter
- NASA SP-4029 summary
- NASA SP-4204 chapter
- NASA SP-4214 chapter
- NSSDC Apollo 1 page
Apollo 11: NASM: Milestones of Flight- NASM: Apollo at 40
- NASM: Apollo to the Moon gallery page
- NASM: Apollo collections page
- NSSDC
- NASA Apollo 11 at 40 meta-page
- NASA Apollo 11 Preliminary Science Report
- LPI Apollo-Era Document meta-page
Images of Dr. Chris Kraft:
President John F. Kennedy being briefed on the operation of the Mercury Control Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida following the Mercury-Atlas 6 flight. MA-6 pilot John H. Glenn (partially obscured) conducts the tour. In the center to Glenn’s left is Christopher C. Kraft, Jr., the MA-6 flight director and Chief of the Flight Operations Division at the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston. Next to Kraft is Astronaut Alan R. Shepard Jr., pilot of the Mercury-Redstone 3 mission, the U.S. first manned space flight. Image source: NASA
Walter C. Williams and Chris Kraft in Mercury Control Center. Walter C. Williams (standing, rear) flight Operations Director, and Chris Kraft (seated) Chief of the Flight Operations Division, Manned Spacecraft Center, are shown in Mercury Control Center as the decision to go for the full 22 orbits is made. Image source: NASA
A portrait of Dr. Christopher C. Kraft Jr. taken in 1979. Dr. Kraft served as director of the Johnson Space Center from January 17, 1972 to August 7, 1982. Image source: NASA
JSC Director Christopher C. Kraft Jr., right, poses in front of the 72-foot by 16-foot mural in the visitor center which was accomplished by Robert T. McCall. Image source: NASA
NASA and Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) officials join the flight controllers in celebrating the conclusion of the Apollo 11 mission. From left foreground Dr. Maxime A. Faget, MSC Director of Engineering and Development; George S. Trimble, MSC Deputy Director; Dr. Christopher C. Kraft Jr., MSC Director of Flight Operations; Julian Scheer (in back), Assistant Adminstrator, Office of Public Affairs, NASA HQ.; George M. Low, Manager, Apollo Spacecraft Program, MSC; Dr. Robert R. Gilruth, MSC Director; and Charles W. Mathews, Deputy Associate Administrator, Office of Manned Space Flight, NASA HQ. Image source: NASA
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. — Interior view of the Mission Control Center during the launch sequence of Mercury-Atlas 8 (MA-8). Image source: NASA
Launching of the Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) spacecraft, the U.S. first manned space flight, from Cape Canaveral on a suborbital mission. Image source: NASA
