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Christopher C. Kraft, Gemini flight director, appears in a relaxed, confident mood as he sits at the console in Mission Control at Manned Spacecraft Center — now named the Johnson Space Center — in Houston on Dec. 7, 1965 and receives reports on the flight of Gemini 7. The orbital flight of Lt. Col. Frank Borman and Commander James A. Lovell was one of the most successful, trouble-free flights of the Gemini program.