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Maxime Faget
American engineer in NASA manned spaceflight programs / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maxime Allen "Max" Faget[1][2] (pronounced fah-ZHAY; August 26, 1921 ā October 9, 2004) was a Belizean-born American mechanical engineer. Faget was the designer of the Mercury spacecraft, and contributed to the later Gemini and Apollo spacecraft as well as the Space Shuttle.
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Born | Maxime Allen Faget (1921-08-26)August 26, 1921 |
Died | October 9, 2004(2004-10-09) (aged 83) |
Nationality | American |
Other names | Max Faget |
Alma mater | City College of San Francisco Louisiana State University, B.S. 1943 |
Occupation | Engineer |
Known for | Designer of the Mercury capsule |
Awards | ASME Medal (1975) |
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