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Apollo Expeditions To The Moon: Chapter 7 'This Is Mission Control' By Christopher C. Kraft, Jr.
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Chapter 7 "This Is Mission Control" By Christopher C. Kraft, Jr.
The last Apollo flight to the Moon has been called "the end of
the
beginning." It represented more than just the end of a program to
me. It
brought to a close a phase of my career. Apollo had become intimately
interwoven in the fabric of the waking hours of my life and often
caused the
remaining hours to be fewer than they should have been. My first
involvement
with the program had occurred at Langley Field, Va., 11 years before
the
Apollo 17 flight. During those formative years of the lunar program
I was
faced with the challenge of flying Mercury, and of necessity my ...