NASA Spacecraft Design Pioneer Faget Dies

[Khephra]

HOUSTON -- Maxime A. Faget, a pioneering NASA engineer who designed the original spacecraft for Project Mercury and whose work helped create every human spacecraft the agency has launched since, has died. He was 83.

Faget died Saturday at his home in Houston, the space agency announced Sunday on its Web site.

In 1958, Faget joined the Space Task Group, which evolved into the NASA Johnson Space Center.

"Without Max Faget's innovative designs and thoughtful approach to problem solving, America's space program would have had trouble getting off the ground," said NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe. "He also was an aeronautics pioneer. In fact, it was his work on supersonic flight research that eventually led to his interest in space flight."

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-obit-faget,0,2663302.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines

[Cronus Protagonist]

1. Who are you calling.... wait... oh...

Great lifetime accomplishments. School must have been a bitch, though.




"So I don't worry about, and people shouldn't
worry about a draft. . . I think we're in good
shape, I really do. And, if not, we'll -- I'll address
the nation. But I don't see any need to right now."
- G. W. Bush (Source: The Whitehouse)

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[Bluebear]

3. Hehehe that's exactly how a typical moran spells it too!

[Swamp Rat]

2. He designed the Mercury Redstone, the USA's first manned space vehicle.

Good bye smart rocket scientist dude. America's collective IQ has just diminished one micro-point.

[Arancaytar]

4. One? :P

[Swamp Rat]

5. OK, fünftausend

Ich liebe Aachen!

:hi:

edit: I was last there in 2000.

[Arancaytar]

6. Hehe, I do too.

I only just moved here. ;) Aachen is a fabulous town.

[Swamp Rat]

7. Ahh, lucky dog!

I'm going back there one day, but lately I'm in love with Brasil.