American engineer in NASA manned spaceflight programs
Maxime Faget
Born
Maxime Allen Faget
(1921-08-26)August 26, 1921
Stann Creek Town, British Honduras (now Dangriga, Belize)
Died
October 9, 2004(2004-10-09) (aged 83)
Houston, Texas, United States
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)
Space shuttle model, created by Faget, April 1, 1969
Maxime Allen "Max" Faget[1][2] (pronounced fah-ZHAY; August 26, 1921 – 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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^"Maxime Faget, 83; Pioneering Aerospace Engineer Designed Mercury Capsule". The New York Times. 12 October 2004.
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