Article: Kraft, Chris. Flight: my life in mission control.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)

Plume. 371p. illus. index. c2001. 0-452-28304-3. $14.00. SA *

During the early years of the Space Age, Chris Kraft's name was probably better known than that of the U.S. president. All through the '60s and '70s, it was Kraft who delivered the latest news of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions to an excited world. For those who have thought of Kraft as a public relations spokesman for NASA, this book will be an eye-opener.

Christopher Columbus Kraft was a fresh and untried aeronautical engineer when he started working for the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA) in 1945. After several years designing test programs for the new jet ...

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