Christopher Kraft: Engineer, NASA leader put man on moon

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Christopher Kraft Jr. at his flight director console at NASA’s Mission Control Center (Photo courtesy NASA)BLACKSBURG — On July 20, 1969, more than 650 million people across the world crowded around televisions to watch the Apollo 11 crew become the first humans to step foot on the moon.
As Neil Armstrong descended the ladder of the Lunar Module and stepped foot on the moon’s surface he said the famous words, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” At that moment, 238,900 m...

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