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Chris Kraft, NASA's first flight director and father of Mission Control, dies at 95 [i]Chris Kraft, NASA's first flight director who invented the concept of Mission Control, has died. He was 95. Kraft's death in Houston on Monday (July 22) was confirmed by NASA. "America has truly lost a national treasure today with the passing of one of NASA's earliest pioneers," Administrator Jim Bridenstine said in a statement. "We send our deepest condolences to the Kraft family."[/i]
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