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    Maxime Allen "Max" Faget (pronounced fah-ZHAY; August 26, 1921 – October 9, 2004) was an American mechanical engineer. Faget was the designer of the Mercury...
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  • physician Faget sign, a medical sign of fever and bradycardia indicating yellow fever Guy Henry Faget (1891–1947), American physician Maxime Faget (1921–2004)...
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  • experimental animals. He was the grandson of Jean Charles Faget, and father of Maxime Faget. For 25 years he was a distinguished officer of the US Public...
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  • American tennis player Maxime Dupé, French footballer Maxime Faget, an inventor Maxime Guyon (born 1989), French flat racing jockey Maxime Hordies, Belgian...
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    surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1960-63. Named by US-ACAN for Maxime A. Faget of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, a visitor at...
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    attempt to re-simplify was made in the form of the DC-3, designed by Maxime Faget, who had designed the Mercury capsule among other vehicles. Numerous...
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    artist and musician residing in Germany. Originator of Punta Rock. Maxime Faget, designer of the Mercury capsule, and contributed to the later Gemini...
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    Meanwhile, NASA performed its own in-house spacecraft design studies led by Maxime Faget, to serve as a gauge to judge and monitor the three industry designs...
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    rocket cluster principle. The Little Joe name has been attributed to Maxime Faget at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. He based the...
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    1958. The Mercury spacecraft was designed by the STG's chief engineer Maxime Faget. NASA selected a new group of astronaut (from the Greek for "star sailor")...
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    novelist and educator, considered Belize's principal contemporary writer Maxime Faget, designer of the Mercury capsule Antonio Soberanis Gómez, activist in...
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    early space program benefited from the services of two LSU graduates. Maxime Faget was a Naval reserve officer and the NASA engineer responsible for the...
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    thirteen names to a meeting chaired by the MSC director, Robert R. Gilruth. Maxime Faget, his director of engineering and development, had an objection: thirteen...
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    several early design proposals for the NASA Space Shuttle designed by Maxime Faget at the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) in Houston. It was nominally developed...
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    contractor in 1959. The Mercury spacecraft's principal designer was Maxime Faget, who started research for human spaceflight during the time of the NACA...
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    orbit during Apollo 15 Manufacturer North American Aviation Designer Maxime Faget Country of origin United States Operator NASA Applications Crewed cislunar...
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    Thompson, which included astronaut Frank Borman, spacecraft designer Maxime Faget, and six others. On February 1, Cornell University professor Frank A...
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    equipment jettison equipment; Maxime Faget and Andre Meyer (divided $1,500) for the emergency ejection device; Maxime Faget, William Bland, and Jack Heberlig...
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    a rocket to remove the capsule from a space vehicle was developed by Maxime Faget in 1958. The system, using the tower on the top of the space capsule...
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  • Air Force propulsion experts, chaired by American spacecraft designer Maxime Faget, in November 1964 to recommend a choice, but their results were inconclusive...
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  • Derrida, 74, French philosopher (deconstruction), pancreatic cancer. Maxime Faget, 83, American aerospace engineer (NASA, Space Shuttle program), designer...
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  • Dale M. Erdey (Class of 1976), state senator from Livingston Parish (R) Maxime Faget, NASA engineering and development director Jimmy Field (Class of 1963)...
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    original on May 20, 2020. Retrieved January 4, 2020. "NIHF Inductee Maxime Faget Invented Space Capsule Design". www.invent.org. April 6, 2024. Archived...
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    smaller explosion, thus the spacecraft could get away with ejection seats. Maxime Faget, the designer of the Mercury LES, was on the other hand less-than-enthusiastic...
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  • for such vehicles were referred to as "DC-3" by spacecraft designer Maxime Faget and Integrated Launch and Reentry Vehicle (ILRV) by NASA. During the...
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    Alkhatib, Palestinian American activist Dubee, Northern Californian rapper. Maxime Faget, (1921–2004) Belizean-born American mechanical engineer and designer...
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    Company. Meanwhile, NASA conducted its own inhouse design study led by Maxime Faget, intended as a gauge of the competitors' entries. The three companies...
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  • Burton Ely (1965) Joe H. Engle (2001) Frank Kendall Everest Jr. (1989) Maxime Faget (2020) Sherman Mills Fairchild (1979) Keith Ferris (2012) Reuben H. Fleet...
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  • The Max Launch Abort System (MLAS) was a proposed alternative to the Maxime Faget-invented "tractor" launch escape system (LES) that was planned for use...
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    attempt to re-simplify was made in the form of the DC-3, designed by Maxime Faget, who had designed the Mercury capsule among other vehicles. Numerous...
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