Former JSC Center Director and Flight Director Christopher Kraft speaks at the ceremony renaming NASA's Mission Control Center for him on April 14, 2011.
Former JSC Center Director and Flight Director Christopher Kraft speaks at the ceremony renaming NASA’s Mission Control Center for him on April 14, 2011. “Dr. Kraft’s life stands as a testament to his dream of exploring space,” JSC Center Director Michael Coats said at the ceremony. “A dream he realized here on Earth, in this building and at this center, through his engineering and managerial expertise. He is a space pioneer without whom we’d never have heard those historic words on the surface of the moon, ‘Houston, Tranquility base here. The Eagle has landed.’ Those words effectively put Houston, and this building behind us, on the intergalactic map forever.”