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unusual facts about Christopher C. McGrath


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.


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.

Chris-Craft

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

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.

Eugene R. McGrath

McGrath was a member of the Committee to Encourage Corporate Philanthropy, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Economic Club of New York, the Development Advisory Council for the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the National Academy of Engineering, and the New York City Public/Private Initiatives.

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.

Gemini 4

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

John F. McGrath

He also designed strain-gauge testing devices for the USS Albacore, the prototype hull design for nuclear submarines.

John J. McGrath

In 1932 he was elected to Congress as a Democrat, defeating incumbent Arthur M. Free in the 8th district, which ran from San Mateo County south across Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and Monterey Counties.

He served three full terms from 1933 to 1939, but was defeated for reelection in 1938 by Republican Jack Z. Anderson.

Kathleen A. McGrath

In the spring of 2000, during her command of the Jarrett,and just six years after Congress revoked rules prohibiting women from serving on combat aircraft and warships, the ship deployed to the northern reaches of the Persian Gulf, hunting boats suspected of smuggling Iraqi oil in violation of United Nations sanctions.

Following her tour as commander of the Jarrett, McGrath served at the Joint Advanced Warfighting Unit in Alexandria, Virginia.

Kotohira Jinsha v. McGrath

Judge J. Frank McLaughlin found the Attorney General’s office had no basis on which to exercise the Trading with the Enemy Act, moreover since 1945 Japan had abolished state religion under Douglas MacArthur and by judicial order return seized property to Kotohira Jinsha.

Judge McLaughlin found the Attorney General’s office in violation of the First Amendment rights of plaintiffs in the United States Constitution with reference to Robert H. Jackson in American Communications Association v. Douds.

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.

Mrs. McGrath

Bruce Springsteen recorded a version of the song on his 2006 album, We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions.

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.

Raymond J. McGrath

He was elected as a Republican to the 97th United States Congress and served from January 3, 1981 until January 3, 1993.

Tecwyn Roberts

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

Thomas C. McGrath, Jr.

In his first bid, for elective office, McGrath was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth Congress, defeating four-term Republican Party incumbent Milton W. Glenn.

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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