| LC control no. | n 84800323 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Faget, Maxime A. (Maxime Allan), 1921-2004 |
| Variant(s) | Faget, Maxime Allan, 1921-2004 Faget, Max, 1921-2004 |
| Birth date | 1921-08-26 |
| Death date | 2004-10-09 |
| Place of birth | Dangriga (Belize) |
| Place of death | Houston (Tex.) |
| Affiliation | United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Manned Spacecraft Center (U.S.) |
| Profession or occupation | Mechanical engineers Aerospace engineers |
| Found in | LCCN 65-28850: Bond, A. Technologies of manned space systems, 1966, c1965 (hdg.: Faget, Maxime Allan, 1921- ; usage: Maxime A. Faget) Wikipedia WWW site, June 9, 2005 (Maxime "Max" A. Faget; b. Aug. 26, 1921, Stann Creek, British Honduras; d. Oct. 9, 2004; American engineer, designer of the Mercury capsule) Wikipedia, July 6, 2022 (Maxime Faget; Maxime Allen "Max" Faget (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; Faget was born in Stann Creek Town, British Honduras (now Dangriga, Belize) and died in Houston, Texas) britannica.com. July 6, 2022 (Max Faget, American engineer; Max Faget, in full Maxime Allan Faget; born August 26, 1921, Stann Creek, British Honduras [now Belize]; died October 9, 2004, Houston, Texas, U.S.; American aerospace engineer who made major contributions to the design of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo spacecraft and to the space shuttle; Faget received a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge in 1943; in 1946 he took a job in Hampton, Virginia, with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics; after the creation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1958, a Faget design was used as the basis of the spacecraft for Project Mercury, the first U.S. crewed spaceflight program; Faget was one of 35 NASA personnel who formed the core of NASA's Space Task Group, which managed the Mercury program; in 1961, the group moved to the new Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston to manage the Gemini and Apollo programs; Faget eventually became chief engineer at the centre; in 1969 he led the preliminary design effort for a reusable crewed spacecraft, which became the space shuttle, and he oversaw the technical development of the shuttle until its first test flights in 1981; Faget retired from NASA in 1981 to pursue private-sector space ventures) |
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