Maxime Allen "Max" Faget was a Belizean-born American mechanical engineer.
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12 Facts About Max Faget
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Max Faget was the designer of the Mercury spacecraft, and contributed to the later Gemini and Apollo spacecraft as well as the Space Shuttle.
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In 1958, Max Faget became one of the 35 engineers who formed the Space Task Group, creating the Mercury spacecraft.
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Max Faget based his designs on the aerodynamic work of Harvey Allen from the mid-1950s, and was instrumental in selecting the blunt-body shape that won the Mercury competition over numerous contenders.
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Max Faget led the development of the escape tower system used on Mercury, which was used in various forms on almost all following crewed spacecraft.
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Max Faget worked on the Gemini and Apollo vehicles, which shared many design points with the Mercury.
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Max Faget filed a patent for a space shuttle vehicle design in 1972.
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In 1962 Max Faget became the Director of Engineering and Development at the Manned Spacecraft Center and continued to work for NASA until his retirement in 1981, shortly after the second Space Shuttle flight .
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In 1962, Max Faget received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.
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Max Faget was inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame in 1990.
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Max Faget was co-inventor on five United States patents issued to Space Industries, Inc between 1988 and 1992:.
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