Kraft, Christopher C.
Christopher C. Kraft papers, 1941-1998.
Papers include correspondence, notes, and limited-circulation NACA and NASA documents. These range from his notes and calculations on the P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft in the 1940s and annotated copies of "Mission Rules" for space missions in the 1950s and 1960s to his extensive notes from meetings and conversations in the 1970s and 1980s.
Kraft (1924- ). Aerospace Engineer and NASA Administrator. Graduated Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1944; joined the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronauatics (NACA), 1945. In 1958 was named an original member of NASA's Space Task Group. He was flight Director for all the Mercury and many of the Gemini missions and directed the design of Mission Control at the Manned Spacecrft Center (MSC) in Houston. Kraft was named Deputy Director of the MSC in 1970 and its Director in 1972. He retired from NASA in 1982. He is a recipient of the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal (1963), the NASA Distinguished Service Medal (1969), and the American Astronautical Soceity's Space Flight Award (1970).
United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics -- Documentation.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Documentation.
Aircraft design -- Documentation.
Astronautical laboratories -- Administration.
Manned space flight -- Administration -- United States.
Space flight -- Rules and Practice -- United States.
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P-47 Thunderbolt (Aircraft).
P-47 Thunderbolt (Aircraft).
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