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4 unusual facts about Christopher C. Kraft, Jr


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For the NASA flight director, see Christopher C. Kraft, Jr.

Gemini 4

:Flight Director Chris Kraft, to Grissom: The flight director says, get back in!

Mercury-Atlas 5

Flight Director Christopher Kraft alerted the Hawaii controllers to be ready to initiate retrofire to bring the spacecraft down in the Pacific, if necessary.

Tecwyn Roberts

NASA's concept of Mission Control had previously been developed under the leadership of Christopher C. Kraft.


Bruce Garvey

In 1970, Garvey and Daily Expresss Richard Killian were the only reporters present at NASA's Mission Control when the crew of Apollo 13 first reported the critical equipment failures which changed the lunar mission into a rescue operation.

Charles H. Kraft

Kraft writes and teaches about biblical Christianity and culture (including contextualization), communicating biblical Christianity, anthropology and Christianity, cross-cultural Christian theology, worldview, spiritual warfare, inner healing, generational curses, and the evils of Freemasonry.

Charles Kraft

Charles H. Kraft (born 1932), American anthropologist and Christian teacher

Christopher C. Augur

He was a member of the Aztec Club of 1847, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States and the Military Order of Foreign Wars.

Christopher C. Bowen

During the Civil War he enlisted in the Confederate States Army and served throughout the war as a captain in the Coast Guard.

Christopher C. Horner

He has provided legal, policy, and political commentary several hundred times each on both television and radio, in the United States, Europe, Canada, and Australia, including on the Fox News Channel, Court TV, MSNBC (with repeat visits on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer), BBC, CNN, CNN International, ITN, CBC, Bloomberg, and Reuters Television.

Horner has testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, and works on a legal and policy level with numerous think tanks and policy organizations throughout the world.

Christopher C. McGrath

McGrath was elected as a Democrat to the 8st and 82nd United States Congresses, holding office from January 3, 1949, to January 3, 1953.

East Longmeadow, Massachusetts

Erik P. Kraft - Writer, grew up in East Longmeadow, and his novel Miracle Wimp is set there

FSU Hymns

Mission Control used the Fight Song to awaken alumnus and current professor Norm Thagard one morning in 1983 while he was aboard the Challenger spacecraft.

Herbert C. Kraft

He wrote numerous books about archaeology in New Jersey, the Lenape and the Paleo-indians of New Jersey, as well as over 170 articles in his career.

Museum of Flight

It includes a mock-up NASA mission control, and experiments from all areas of space research.

Of a Fire on the Moon

After spending time at the space center and mission control in Houston, and witnessing the launch of the colossal Saturn V rocket at Cape Kennedy in Florida, Mailer began writing his account of the historic voyage at his home in Provincetown, Massachusetts during marathon writing sessions to meet his deadlines for the magazine.

Robert A. Kraft

Kraft has also produced significant work in manuscript studies (including Coptic texts), on so-called "Jewish Christianity" in antiquity, on the pseudepigrapha and on the Christian transmission of ancient Jewish writings.

Sodium citrate

:Our modernist version of mac and cheese owes its chemistry to James L. Kraft, who in 1916 patented the first American cheese slice.

UFO sightings in outer space

An analysis done in 1999 by former Mission Control specialist James Oberg concluded that all the objects were nearby sunlit debris.


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