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Chris Kraft, NASA's first flight director, dies at 95
He played a key role in the Apollo 11 mission
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Chris Kraft, the first NASA flight director, had managed to attend the fiftieth anniversary of the landing on the Moon, for which he had played a key role, but he died two days later, in Houston, on July 22 at 95. Jim Bridenstine, the administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), left a message of condolence: "With his death, America lost a national treasure, it was a...
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AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency