Background
KRAFT, Christopher was born on February 28, 1924 in Phoebus, Virginia, United States. Son of Christopher Columbus and Vanda Olivia (Suddreth) Kraft.
KRAFT, Christopher was born on February 28, 1924 in Phoebus, Virginia, United States. Son of Christopher Columbus and Vanda Olivia (Suddreth) Kraft.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
Director all Mercury Missions. Director of Flight Operations, Manned Spacecraft Center 1963-1969. Deputy Director Johnson Space Center 1970-1972.
Director National Aeronautics and Space Administration Johnson Space Center 1972-1982.
Fellow, Ainerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 1966. Fellow, American Astronautical Society.
Honorary Doctor of Engineering (Indiana Institute of Technology) 1966, (Saint Louis University, 111.) 1967, (Villanova) 1979.
Arthur South. Fleming.
Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics 1945.
Married Elizabeth Anne Turnbull in 1950.