Pioneering NASA Engineer Max Faget Dead at 83
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Pioneering NASA engineer Maxime Faget, who designed the Project Mercury capsule that carried the first US astronauts into space and worked on every subsequent manned spacecraft including the space shuttle, has died at the age of 83
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The last of the seven Project Mercury  astronauts who pioneered U.S. space exploration in the 1960s  remembered one of their own as a fearless pilot with the "right  stuff" in an emotional memorial ceremony on Friday for Gordon  Cooper.
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LOS ANGELES -- A pilot who died when his aerobatic plane plunged into the sea was an engineer who promoted fuel-efficient hybrid vehicles and was dubbed the "American father of the Prius."
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NASA knows Columbia sustained damage on liftoff. But engineers' concerns get swept aside by mission control, at the cost of seven lives. Compiled by Tony Long.
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Gordon Cooper, who as one of the original Mercury astronauts was a pioneer in human space exploration, has died. He was 77.
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Bob Evans, an IBM computer scientist who helped to develop the modern mainframe computer, died Thursday. He was 77. Evans died of heart failure at his at his home in the San Francisco suburb of Hillsborough, his son Evan told the Associated Press.
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Earlier this month, the US space program lost one of its most colorful pioneers - Leroy Gordon &quot;Gordo&quot; Cooper Jr., one of the Mercury 7 astronauts, whose exploits and foibles
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Thomas M. Donahue, one of the country&#39;s leading space and planetary scientists and a pioneer of space exploration, died Saturday of complications following heart surgery.
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Maxime A. Faget, 83, a retired NASA aeronautical engineer whose innovative designs contributed greatly to manned spacecraft from Mercury to the space shuttle, died of cancer Oct. 10 at his home in Houston.
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Engineers for the space agency's experimental X-43A project prepare to break the aircraft speed record. But the hypersonic jet flight could be NASA's last. By Amit Asaravala.
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Gordon Cooper, the youngest and perhaps cockiest member of the original Mercury astronauts whose space endurance record cleared the way for manned flight to the moon, has died.
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William Siri, a biophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who helped lead the first American expedition to reach Mount Everest's summit, has died at age 85.
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The founder of Seagate Technologies died on Tuesday following complications from heart surgery.
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Peter Staudhammer, a wide-ranging aerospace engineer and executive, helped design instruments and engines used by NASA in landings on Mars and the Moon.
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Faget designed the original spacecraft for Project Mercury and played a role in the design of every US human spacecraft from Mercury to the space shuttle.
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Ken Kennedy, a professor who founded the computer science department at Rice University in 1984 and eventually became one of the world's pioneers in parallel and distributed computing, died last week at 61. Computerworld's Gary Anthes remembers Kennedy.
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LOS ANGELES Oct. 4, 2004 - Gordon Cooper, who was the youngest and perhaps cockiest member of the original seven Mercury astronauts and set the space endurance record that helped clear the way for the first moon landing, has died.