Word: krafts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Space Walk. Shortly after the trouble was identified, Christopher C. Kraft Jr., the Johnson Space Center's director, put in a call to Cape Kennedy: How soon could a rescue vehicle be made ready for launch? He also checked with NASA headquarters in Washington about such a mission. By midmorning, after emergency meetings in Washington, Houston and the Cape, Kraft had his answers. A three-shift, 24-hour-a-day operation could get a rescue vehicle (actually the command ship originally designated to be used by the third Skylab team) ready for launch by September 10. NASA headquarters also...
...MIKE KRAFT...
...failed at least four different tests. The shield was apparently plagued by an extreme flutter when subjected to the stresses of launch. Though aware of the shield's shortcomings, NASA decided to use it anyway, mainly to save a few million dollars in additional development costs. Admits Christopher Kraft Jr., director of Houston's Johnson Space Center: "We had a great battle whether we should put that thing on there or not. It was a judgment factor...
...Apollo 8 and the final flight of Apollo 17, a dozen U.S. astronauts had walked on the lunar surface and-as President Nixon noted last week-"of 24 men sent to circle the moon or to stand upon it...24 men returned to earth alive and well." Said Christopher Kraft, director of Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center: "Apollo was the greatest engineering feat of all our lives...
Whatever one may call the whole business there is vast indifference about it all. Indignation has been lost, says Columnist Joseph Kraft, in a disillusion with people in high places. Kraft quotes a man who says, "To most people [Government corruption] just one bunch of thieves robbing another bunch of thieves." The Chicago Daily News's Peter Lisagor finds people's moral outrage so depleted after a decade of assault from duplicity about Viet Nam to tax loopholes that it cannot get aroused over a little electronic eavesdropping, or the windfall of a few millions to corporate friends...