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Christopher C. Kraft Jr.

1924 - 2019

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Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr. (February 28, 1924 – July 22, 2019) was an American aerospace and NASA engineer who was instrumental in establishing the agency's Mission Control Center and shaping its organization and culture. His protégé Glynn Lunney said in 1998: "the Control Center today ... is a reflection of Chris Kraft". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Christopher C. Kraft Jr. is the 129th most popular inventor (up from 231st in 2019), the 1,951st most popular biography from United States (up from 3,612th in 2019) and the 37th most popular American Inventor.

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Among inventors, Christopher C. Kraft Jr. ranks 129 out of 426. Before him are Hans von Ohain, Nikolai Kardashev, Paul Otlet, George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., André Michelin, and Alfred Krupp. After him are Robert Adler, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, W. O. Bentley, Percy Spencer, Elisha Gray, and Josef Ressel.

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Among people born in 1924, Christopher C. Kraft Jr. ranks 83. Before him are Black Dahlia, Torsten Wiesel, Ephraim Kishon, Sabu Dastagir, David Bronstein, and Kenneth Waltz. After him are Roza Shanina, Sverre Fehn, Bulat Okudzhava, James Baldwin, Hermann Buhl, and Claude Sautet. Among people deceased in 2019, Christopher C. Kraft Jr. ranks 79. Before him are Owen Garriott, Claudine Auger, César Pelli, Michael Atiyah, Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, and Nikolai Kardashev. After him are Mirjana Marković, Moshe Arens, Henri, Count of Paris, Michel Serres, Valery Bykovsky, and André Previn.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Christopher C. Kraft Jr. ranks 1,951 out of 20,380. Before him are George Dantzig (1914), Frederick Cook (1865), Juliet Anderson (1938), Barbara Bach (1947), Mario Lanza (1921), and Kenneth Waltz (1924). After him are Robert B. Laughlin (1950), Grover Washington Jr. (1943), Ted Danson (1947), Jeffrey C. Hall (1945), William Westmoreland (1914), and Martha Gellhorn (1908).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Christopher C. Kraft Jr. ranks 37. Before him are Walter Hunt (1796), David Bushnell (1742), Josiah Warren (1798), Jacque Fresco (1916), Robert Noyce (1927), and George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. (1859). After him are Percy Spencer (1894), Elisha Gray (1835), Elias Howe (1819), Peter Cooper (1791), Richard Jordan Gatling (1818), and Mary Anderson (1862).

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