Max Faget

Max Faget (born August 26, 1921, Stann Creek, British Honduras [now Belize]—died October 9, 2004, Houston, Texas, U.S.) was an American aerospace engineer who made major contributions to the design of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo spacecraft and to the space shuttle. Faget received a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge in 1943. In 1946 he took a job in Hampton, Virginia, with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the...