https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/acfa9a5a-ae5a-458b-96db-a9c41e98bca0 ASM EXCLUSIVE - NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED: 2001 interview with the LEGENDARY Christopher "Chris" Kraft, the first NASA Flight Director, who also invented NASA's Manned Mission Planning & Control Processes.Kraft joined the NASA Space Task Group in November 1958 as NASA's first flight director, with responsibilities that immersed him in mission procedures and challenging operational issues. He personally invented the mission planning and control processes required for crewed space missions, in areas as diverse as go/no-go decisions, space-to-ground communications, space tracking, real-time problem solving and crew recovery. During the Apollo program, Kraft became the Director of Flight Operations at MSC, responsible for overall human spaceflight mission planning, training and execution. His leadership in this critical area continued through the Apollo 12 mission in 1969, at which time he became deputy director of the Center. He served as the center director from January 1972 until his retirement in August 1982, playing a vital role in the success of the final Apollo missions, the Skylab crewed space station, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project and the first flights of the space shuttle. Above info from https://www.nasa.gov/chris-kraft where you can find much more about him.Oral History Interview 2001-08-03 by Dr. Lori C. Walters for the U.S. Space Walk of Fame Foundation parent of the American Space Museum. Interview location in Houston is believed to probably be his home office. An ORIGINAL production of The American Space Museum, Titusville, FL. Part of our original 2001 "Space Workers Oral History" Project. Sorry this video is so low quality but the audio is the important part. IT Manager, Technical Support, Editor: Bruce Landon Jacobs COPYRIGHT: 2001, 2022 American Space Museum and U.S. Space Walk of Fame Foundation Mirrored from YouTube: https://youtu.be/dVU1WvRP_GE Original channel: American Space Museum Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:43:37 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/ec5edb1e-3795-4978-be4f-c67e98fbc992.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/acfa9a5a-ae5a-458b-96db-a9c41e98bca0 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.