[FPSPACE] Mercury capsule designer Max Faget dies

[robert at collectspace.com]

Max Faget, who in the late 1950s designed the United States first 
manned spacecraft, died Saturday at his home in Houston, Texas. He was 
83.

As NASA's director of engineering and development for the Manned 
Spacecraft Center (later renamed Johnson Space Center), from 1962 to 
1981, Dr. Maxime A. Faget led the capsule design for Project Mercury 
and the Apollo command and service modules, as well as for the Space 
Shuttle orbiter.

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