NASA's ex- Director of Spaceflight Chris Kraft at MIT

[Eric Mc]

One of the legends of NASA and Manned Spaceflight gave this talk on the Space Shuttle as part of their Aeronautical Engineering course in 2005. Although it's over 2 hours long and the sound quality could be better - it is absolutely rivetting. He talks about many, many aspects of manned spaceflight - not just the Shuttle. He also talks about where he thinks we've all gone wrong.

I wish I'd been in the class that day - I'd have had a million questions to ask.

ttp://ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and-astronau...

[stew-S160]

MIT OCW delivering again. I've lost count of the hours I've spent watching lectures. I'd guesstimate close to 1000 hours from MIT.

Will watch this later.

[tank slapper]

It's just missing the h from the beginning: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and-astrona...

[Eric Mc]

Thanks for that. I'm always droppin' me aitches.

[Caruso]

Am part way through watching this now, it's very good. Not only is the subject of great interest but he's an engaging speaker too. So many things you'd take for granted that they had to do from scratch.

[Eric Mc]

Kraft more or less wrote the rule-book on how a Mission Control should be set up and run. He was given a job to do that no one had ever done before - so he had to come up with some sort of plan that did that job.