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Johnson Space Center |
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| Image # : |
S-72-32575 |
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| Date : |
UNKNOWN
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Title
Maxime A. Faget
Full Description
Maxime A. Faget, an aeronautical engineer with a B.S. from
Louisiana State University (1943), joined the staff at Langley
Aeronautical Laboratory in 1946 and soon became head of the
performance aerodynamics branch of the pilotless aircraft
research division. There, he conducted research on the heat
shield of the Mercury spacecraft. In 1958 he joined the space
task group in NASA, forerunner of the NASA Manned Spacecraft
Center that became the Johnson Space Center, and he became its
assistant director for engineering and development in 1962 and
later its director. He contributed many of the original design
concepts for Project Mercury's manned spacecraft and played a
major role in designing virtually every U.S. crewed spacecraft
since that time, including the Space Shuttle. He retired from
NASA in 1981 and became an executive for Eagle Engineering, Inc.
In 1982 he was one of the founders of Space Industries, Inc. and
became its president and chief executive officer.
Keywords
Maxime Faget Manned Spacecraft Center Project Mercury
Subject Category
VIPs-People at NASA-NACA, NASA Management
Reference Numbers
- Center:
JSC
- Center Number:
S-72-32575
- GRIN DataBase Number:
GPN-2002-000223
Source Information
- Creator/Photographer: NASA
- Original Source: DIGITAL
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90 |
10 |
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641 |
291 |
Medium |
JPEG |
1132 |
1502 |
1,601 |
Large |
JPEG |
2264 |
3003 |
6,698 |
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