NASA Designer Maxime Faget Dies
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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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CHICAGO -- Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, who risked his life seeking to set records in high-tech balloons, gliders and jets, was declared dead Friday, 5 months after he vanished while flying in an ordinary small plane.
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WASHINGTON, OCTOBER 5: Gordon Cooper, 77, one of the seven US astronauts who made the nationâs first manned spaceflights and became known as possessors of The Right Stuff, died on Monday at his home in Ventura, Calif.
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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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NASA mourns the loss of Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper, who rocketed into space in his Faith 7 capsule on May 15, 1963 (above, right).
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Gianfranco Ferre, the Italian designer known as the "architect of fashion" for his structured, sculpted shapes and for his groundbreaking tenure at Christian Dior, died Sunday. He was 62.
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The founder of Seagate Technologies died on Tuesday following complications from heart surgery.
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Hubert Curien, a scientist, former minister and architect of French space policy regarded as a father of the Ariane series of rockets, has died at age 80.
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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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The Toyota executive credited with the design of the popular gas-electric hybrid car the Prius died in a plane crash Saturday off the coast of California, according to the New York Times.
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Viktor Schreckengost, an artist and prolific industrial designer whose ubiquitous works ranged from familiar toys and White House porcelain to innovative trucks and even lawn mowers, has died. He was 101.
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Geoffrey Beene, the award-winning designer whose simple, classic styles for men and women put him at the forefront of American fashion, died Tuesday at 77.
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Italian fashion designer Gianfranco Ferre  has died at Milan&#39;s San Raffaele hospital after suffering a  brain hemorrhage, Italian news agency ANSA said on Sunday.
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Grant writes &quot;Leroy Gordon &#39;Gordo&#39; Cooper, one of America&#39;s first seven astronauts, died today in his home at the age of 77.
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Donald R. Puddy, a longtime NASA flight director, supervised Apollo, Skylab and early space shuttle missions from Mission Control.
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Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, who risked his life seeking to set records in high-tech balloons, gliders and jets, was declared dead Friday, 5 months after he vanished while flying in an ordinary small plane.
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American fashion designer Geoffrey  Beene, whose simple fashions made him a department store  favorite for decades, died on Tuesday at his home on the Upper  East Side of Manhattan at the age of 77.