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All Mission Control and Program Leadership

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Pioneers who ran missions and programs from the ground rather than designing the hardware itself: Christopher Kraft, NASA's first flight director, Gene Kranz, the flight director of Gemini 4 and the Apollo 13 rescue, George Mueller, the NASA administrator who introduced all-up testing for the Saturn V, and James Webb, NASA's second administrator during the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo buildup. Belongs here: a pioneer chiefly known for directing missions or administering a space program. Does not belong here: a pioneer chiefly known for engineering the hardware, grouped under Spacecraft and Rocket Engineers, or for the mathematics and software behind a mission, grouped under Computing and Guidance Pioneers.

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Abe Silverstein

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Alan Stern

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Allen F. Donovan

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Christopher Kraft

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Eberhard Rees

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Gene Kranz

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George Low

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George Mueller

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Homer Newell

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Hubert Curien

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Hugh Dryden

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James Fletcher

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James Webb

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Jesco von Puttkamer

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JoAnn Morgan

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Kerim Kerimov

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Kurt Debus

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Mikhail Dobriyan

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Milton Rosen

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Nandini Harinath

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Robert Gilruth

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Rocco Petrone

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Samuel Phillips

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Satish Dhawan

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Sergey Afanasyev

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T. Keith Glennan

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Tecwyn Roberts

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U. R. Rao

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Vikram Sarabhai

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Walter Dornberger

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William Hayward Pickering

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Władysław Turowicz

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Yang Yiqiang

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Yuri Mozzhorin

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Zhang Qingwei

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Zhao Jiuzhang

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1. Wikipedia: Christopher C. Kraft Jr.
Wikimedia FoundationChristopher C. Kraft Jr., lead section
Quote, Christopher C. Kraft Jr., lead section
He worked for over a decade in aeronautical research and in 1958 joined the Space Task Group, a small team entrusted with the responsibility of putting America's first man in space.
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