Christopher Kraft, NASA’s Face and Voice of Mission Control, Dies at 95

Godspeed, Christopher Kraft, you left our tiny marble a better place than when you came. We will ever strive to meet you dedication to the cause of exploration for all mankind.

Christopher Kraft and Gene Kranz were the two people that I associated with mission control growing up. I don't think I missed a launch until well into the Space Shuttle program. By then they became almost routine.

Even then I didn't pass up a chance to see lift off. As I detailed on here once before I sat with a client and we watched the Challenger disaster together.

2 days after the anniversary. To me it seems like he either was done and just let himself go, or got too emotional for his body to handle.

This is sad to hear. I just started re-watching “From the Earth to the Moon”, which I haven’t seen since it first came out...but HBO finally made an HD version. Mr. Kraft was portrayed as a no-nonsense, pragmatic administrator and engineer.

I did not expect the news of the death of Mr. Kraft to hit me as hard as it did, I never met him personally but somehow I felt very connected to him and his history when I read the book "Failure is not an option". Go with God Mr. Kraft, you have left such a tremendous legacy I don't even think we can thank you enough.