APPROVED. Following his 1944 graduation from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University with a degree in aeronautical engineering, Kraft was hired by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the predecessor organization to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). It dealt with his life up until the end of the Apollo program, only briefly mentioning his time as center director in the epilogue. As Kranz recalled, "He just said, 'You're in charge,' and walked out."[42]. [30] The mission was the first orbital flight by an American, and unfolded normally until Glenn began his second orbit. "[34], Before the flight of Mercury-Atlas 7, Kraft had objected to the choice of Scott Carpenter as the astronaut for the mission, telling Walt Williams that Carpenter's lack of engineering skills might put the mission or his own life in danger. "Clearly, with flight control facing a learning curve," space historian David Harland has said, "these arrangements were an experiment in their own right. ENDORSEMENT: OK. (Signed by Judge Colleen McMahon on 2/25/2021)(bw) (Entered: 02/26/2021), SCHEDULING ORDER as to James Cahill, Christopher Kraft, Patrick Hill, Matthew Norton, William Brian Wangerman, Kevin McCarron, Jeremy Sheeran, Andrew McKeon, Robert Egan, Scott Roche, Arthur Gipson. HOUSTON, TX Christopher Kraft, the man who served as NASA's first flight director and ran mission control during the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions, died at the age of 95 on Monday. [87] In his autobiography, Kraft acknowledged the sacrifices that his family had made as a result of his work for NASA, saying that "I was more of a remote authority figure to Gordon and Kristi-Anne than a typical American father."[88]. CAHILL is the president of the New York State Building and Construction Trades Council (the NYS Trades Council), which represents over 200,000 unionized construction workers, and a member of the executive council for the New York State American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (the NYS AFL-CIO). BAIL DISPOSITION: Agreed conditions of release; $250,000 Personal recognizance bond; To be cosigned by one financially responsible person - wife; Secured by family home; Travel restricted to SDNY/EDNY; Surrender travel documents and no new applications; Pretrial supervision as directed by PTS; Deft not to possess firearm, destructive device, other weapon; Deft to be released on own signature; Remaining conditions to be met by 10/8/2020; Def. The maximum potential sentences in this case are prescribed by Congress and are provided here for informational purposes only, as any sentencing of the defendants will be determined by the judge. Living at this location continues to be beneficial to both Cahill's physical and mental health. (jbo) (Entered: 03/23/2021), Appearance Bond Entered as to William Brian Wangerman: $150,000 Personal Recognizance Bond; To be cosigned by Two Financially Responsible Persons; Additional Conditions.. [**Advice of Penalties and Sanctions attached.] Jan. 18, 2023, 5:16 a.m. EST, Assigned To: In addition to being president of the NYS Trades Council and a member of the NYS AFL-CIOs executive council, CAHILL is also a former business agent of Local 638, and a former international representative of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada. (Kaley, John) (Entered: 03/24/2021), MEMO ENDORSEMENT as to Arthur Gipson (11) on 116 LETTER MOTION addressed to Judge Colleen McMahon from John F. Kaley, Esq. Install RECAP Kraft, the creator and longtime leader of NASA's Mission Control, died Monday in Houston, just two days after the 50th anniversary of what was his and NASA's crowning achievement: Apollo 11's. ENDORSEMENT: Case adj to Oct. 29, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. - time excluded as to all defendants in the interest of justice, to allow defendants to review discovery. It recommended that NASA's Space Shuttle operations should be outsourced to a single private contractor, and that "NASA should consider progression towards the privatization of the space shuttle. You know, the bottom-line stuff on how we fly a man from a launch pad into space and back again. (McGuirk, Kelly) (Entered: 07/27/2021), NOTICE OF FILING OF OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT as to James Cahill. (Signed by Judge Colleen McMahon on 10/20/2020) (ap) (Entered: 10/20/2020), MEMO ENDORSEMENT as to Matthew Norton (4) granting 33 MOTION to Travel. may not engage in business related to Local 638;Def. Kraft believed that the Segment 51 indicator was due to faulty instrumentation rather than to an actual early deployment. (Signed by Judge Colleen McMahon on 2/8/2021) (lnl) (Entered: 02/08/2021), SEALED DOCUMENT placed in vault. Defendant arraigned and pleads Not Guilty. The failure of one of the hydrogen peroxide jets controlling the spacecraft's attitude forced Kraft to make the decision to bring the capsule back to Earth after two orbits. Defendant arraigned and pleads Not Guilty. Interview with Chris Kraft 5,128 views Oct 11, 2016 55 Dislike Share Robin Edmiston 44 subscribers Jack Yates Community Forum Interview with Chris Kraft Host-Sir Black 5-17-2002 JY Media. Christopher Kraft is 36 years old today because Christopher's birthday is on 07/23/1986. Def. Document filed by James Cahill. During the charged conspiracy, CAHILL accepted approximately $44,500 in bribes from Employer-1, and as part of his guilty plea, CAHILL acknowledged having previously accepted at least approximately $100,000 of additional bribes from Employer-1 in connection with CAHILLs union positions. (jbo) (Entered: 10/02/2020), NOTICE OF ATTORNEY APPEARANCE: Arthur Louis Aidala appearing for Jeremy Sheeran. Find Christopher Kraft obituaries and memorials at Legacy.com. must surrender passport (if any) by 10/2/2020; Def. Mr. McCarron would leave Saturday morning, March 20, and return to New York on Monday, March 22, 2021.ENDORSEMENTRequest Granted. (nmo) (Entered: 01/22/2021), LETTER MOTION addressed to Judge Colleen McMahon from Tyler Maulsby dated January 27, 2021 re: Request to Travel to Hunter Mountain . [74] He denied that his resignation had anything to do with the threatened possibility of Johnson Space Center losing its leading role in Space Shuttle operations or in the development of NASA's Space Station Freedom. (Swergold, Jason) (Entered: 10/23/2021), MEMO ENDORSEMENT as to James Cahill, Christopher Kraft, Patrick Hill, Matthew Norton, William Brian Wangerman, Kevin McCarron, Jeremy Sheeran, Andrew McKeon, Robert Egan, Scott Roche, Arthur Gipson on re: 160 LETTER by USA addressed to Judge Colleen McMahon from AUSA Jason Swergold dated October 23, 2021 re: Request for Adjournment. As a substitute, George Low, the manager of the Apollo Spacecraft Program Office, came up with the idea of assigning a new mission profile to Apollo 8, one that could be flown without the lunar module. For instance, in one meeting with Employer-1, CAHILL urged Employer-1, in sum and substance, not to sign with a union, but instead to tell everyone to go fuck themselves because if you become union, youll have 12 fucking guys on your back.. The case is assigned to Chief United States District Judge Colleen McMahon. Release of Transcript Restriction set for 8/2/2021. By the time that the Apollo 7 mission flew, he had been promoted to head of the flight operations division; thus, it was Glynn Lunney who served as lead flight director and had to deal directly with behavior by the crew that Kraft considered "insubordinate". "[41] Yet, Kraft proved to be remarkably successful at passing on responsibility to his fellow flight directorsarguably too successful, as Gene Kranz found during his first shift handover on Gemini 4. His protg Glynn Lunney said in 1998: "the Control Center today is a reflection of Chris Kraft".[1]. (Signed by Judge Colleen McMahon on 6/15/2021) (ap) (Entered: 06/15/2021), SCHEDULING ORDER as to James Cahill, Christopher Kraft, Patrick Hill, Matthew Norton, William Brian Wangerman, Kevin McCarron, Jeremy Sheeran, Andrew McKeon, Robert Egan, Scott Roche, Arthur Gipson: The Court will hold a remote telephone/video-status conference in this matter, Thursday, June 17, 2021, at 2:30 p.m. Monday, December 12, 2022 Former President Of The New York Building And Construction Trades Council And 10 Other Union Officials Plead Guilty To Accepting Bribes And Illegal Payments Defendants Accepted Dozens of Bribes to Corruptly Influence the Construction Industry at the Expense of Labor Unions and Their Members dated March 24, 2021 re: Modify Conditions of Release . (jbo), CONSENT TO PROCEED BY VIDEOCONFERENCE OR TELECONFERENCE as to Jeremy Sheeran re:Status and/or Scheduling Conference (Signed by Judge Colleen McMahon on 6/28/21)(jw) (Entered: 06/28/2021), WAIVER OF RIGHT TO BE PRESENT AT CRIMINAL PROCEEDING as to James Cahill. Kraft had to personally meet with Admiral John McCain in order to persuade him to make the requisite resources available to NASA.[62]. 303 Pinellas St Ste 230. From Free Law Project, a 501(c)(3) non-profit. Notice is hereby given that an official transcript of a Conference proceeding held on 3/11/21 has been filed by the court reporter/transcriber in the above-captioned matter. Conference before District Judge on 10/22/2020. John C. "Chris" Kraft, a world-renowned coastal geologist and a widely respected professor at the University of Delaware for more than four decades, passed away peacefully on Monday, Jan. 27. (Xiang, Jun) (Entered: 01/12/2021), LETTER by USA as to James Cahill, Christopher Kraft, Patrick Hill, Matthew Norton, William Brian Wangerman, Kevin McCarron, Jeremy Sheeran, Andrew McKeon, Robert Egan, Scott Roche, Arthur Gipson addressed to Judge Colleen McMahon from AUSA Danielle R. Sassoon dated January 12, 2021 re: subpoenas Document filed by USA. (jbo) (Entered: 03/15/2021), Appearance Bond Entered as to Andrew McKeon: $150,000 PERSONAL RECOGNIZANCE BOND; TO BE COSIGNED BY TWO FINANCIALLY RESPONSIBLE PERSONS; Additional Conditions.. [**Advice of Penalties and Sanctions attached.] [45] Yet Kraft still felt pangs at not being at the center of the action, particularly after the emergency re-entry of Gemini 8. BAIL DISPOSITION: Agreed conditions of release; $500,000 Personal recognizance bond; To be cosigned by three financially responsible persons; Secured by son's property; Travel restricted to SDNY/EDNY; Surrender travel documents and no new applications; Pretrial supervision as directed PTS; Home detention; Electronic Monitoring; Deft not to possess firearm, destructive device, other weapon; Deft to be released on own signature; Remaining conditions to be met by 10/8/2020; FRPs are to be Def's sons and his brother. [89] In addition to his duties as a lay reader, Kraft spent some time teaching a class in adult Bible study. ENDORSEMENT: Denied. We'd have a flow of accurate telemetry data so the experts could monitor their systems, see and even predict problems, and pass along instructions to the astronaut. (Signed by Judge Colleen McMahon on 8/6/2021) (bw) (Entered: 08/06/2021), LETTER MOTION addressed to Judge Colleen McMahon from Camille M. Abate dated August 17, 2021 re: Permission to Travel . ENDORSEMENT: Permission to travel Granted. In the article, he compared himself to Christopher Columbus, and displayed what the magazine described as "an almost angry pride" in his work. His protg Glynn Lunneysaid in 1998: "the Control Center today . Report of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, volume 1, p. 118. Appearance Type: Retained. "Part of the problem," he recalled, "was that Carpenter either didn't understand or was ignoring my instructions. (jbo), NOTICE OF ATTORNEY APPEARANCE: Benjamin Sean Fischer appearing for Christopher Kraft. [57], Kraft had made a similar pronouncement before, in the case of astronaut Scott Carpenter. Defendant present with retained counsel Camile Abate. "If any of three retrorockets had solid fuel remaining, an explosion could rip everything apart. Defendant arraigned and pleads Not Guilty. [12] He investigated wingtip vortices, and discovered that they, and not prop-wash, are responsible for most of the wake turbulence in the air that trails flying aircraft. His roots at NASA went back to the inaugural Space Task Group, formed . 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. Another important concept pioneered by Kraft was the idea of the flight director, the man who would coordinate the team of engineers and make real-time decisions about the conduct of the mission. He practices at BayCare Medical Group. Mr. Wangerman was presented and arraigned on October 1, 2020 before the Honorable Robert W. Lehrburger, released on his signature and given a deadline of today to secure two financially responsible people to co-sign his bond. Assistant U.S. Mr. Williams praised the outstanding investigative work of the Special Agents and investigators within the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Southern District of New York and the Suffolk County District Attorneys Office. (Abate, Camille) (Entered: 03/19/2021), MEMO ENDORSEMENT 111 LETTER MOTION I respectfully request that Mr. McCarron be permitted to travel with his sons for the weekend to visit close family friends with children of similar age, Blakeslee, PA 18610. [2], In 2006, NASA gave Kraft the Ambassador of Exploration Award, which carried with it a sample of lunar material brought back by Apollo 11. (Talkin, Sanford) (Entered: 05/05/2021), MEMO ENDORSEMENT as to James Cahill (1) on 122 LETTER MOTION addressed to Judge Colleen McMahon from Sanford Talkin dated 5/5/21 re: Permission to Attend Family Functions. The lessons that he drew from this experience were clear. dated October 16, 2020 re: Consent to Change Attorney . Kraft's father, the son of Bavarian immigrants,[3] had found his name an embarrassment, but passed it along to his son nonetheless. He was 95. Defendant present with retained counsel Mark Gann. 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. Government is in the process of providing defendants with discovery. There's no question about that in my mind or in the astronauts' minds. The Court will hold a remote telephone/video-status conference in this matter, Tuesday, November 9, 2021, at 3:00 p.m. Christopher C. 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