Legendary Aerospace Engineer Max Faget Dies
Credit: NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF SPACE HISTORY
Maxime A. Faget, the Langley Research Center engineer who made important aeronautics breakthroughs and designed the Project Mercury spacecraft that carried the first U.S. astronauts into space, died at home near Clear Lake, Tex., on Oct. 9. He was 83 and had been battling bladder cancer. Following...
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