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Max Faget

American engineer

Written by John M. Logsdon

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In full:: Maxime Allan Faget

Born:: August 26, 1921, Stann Creek, British Honduras [now Belize]

Died:: October 9, 2004, Houston, Texas, U.S. (aged 83)

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Max Faget (born August 26, 1921, Stann Creek, British Honduras [now Belize]—died October 9, 2004, Houston, Texas, U.S.) was an 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, the U.S. government’s leading agency for aeronautical research. There he did pioneering work on supersonic inlets and ramjets and helped design the X-15 rocket-powered aircraft and ...(100 of 232 words)

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