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MLAS was named after Maxime (Max) Faget, a Mercury-era pioneer.
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But, I thought VB was just the PR guy - that Max Faget (think that's the name?) was the real brains behind Apollo design success & Shuttle design?
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Faget was a spacecraft designer (as in the capsules, not the launch vehicles).
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Max Faget would be rolling in his grave over this abomination.
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NASA from its inception in 1958 dictated the engineering solution (whether it was a Max Faget spacecraft or Von Braun team booster design) and imposed it on industry (sometimes down to some unbelievably tight specifications), then had them develop it, test it, and perfect it primarily in govt laboratories and govt testing facilities.
Remembering Apollo 11 and the Legacy of Apollo - NASA Watch 2009
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MLAS was named after Maxime (Max) Faget, a Mercury-era pioneer.
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Like Faget, they believed that the missing element in the cancer crusade was some sort of propulsion, a simple, internal vertical thrust that would transform the scale and scope of their efforts and catapult them toward the cure.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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When Max Faget, the famously taciturn engineer of the Apollo program, was later asked to comment on the principal scientific challenge of the moon landing, he could only come up with a single word: “Propulsion.”
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Like Faget, they believed that the missing element in the cancer crusade was some sort of propulsion, a simple, internal vertical thrust that would transform the scale and scope of their efforts and catapult them toward the cure.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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When Max Faget, the famously taciturn engineer of the Apollo program, was later asked to comment on the principal scientific challenge of the moon landing, he could only come up with a single word: “Propulsion.”
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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