NASA engineer Faget dead at 83
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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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Leroy Gordon Cooper, one of the nation&#39;s first astronauts who once set a space endurance record by traveling more than 3.3 million miles aboard Gemini 5 in 1965, died on Monday, NASA said.
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United Arab Emirates President and ruler of Abu Dhabi Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nayhan died Tuesday, official television reports. He was 86.
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Ernest Hofstetter, part of the Swiss team that first traced the route to "The Roof of the World" used by Sir Edmund Hillary to conquer Mount Everest, has died, his son said Friday. He was 95.
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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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VENTURA, Calif. - Gordon Cooper, who as one of the original Mercury astronauts was a pioneer in human space exploration, has died.
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The mother of a U.S. astronaut who has  been in space since October was killed when a freight train hit  her car at a railroad crossing near Chicago, police said on  Thursday.
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Maxime Faget conceived and proposed the development of the one-man spacecraft used in Project Mercury, which put the first American astronauts into suborbital flight, then orbital flight
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Gordon Cooper, 77, one of the seven original US astronauts, who made the nation&#39;s first manned spaceflights and became known as possessors of &quot;The Right Stuff,&quot; died yesterday at his home in Ventura, Calif.
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accident nine years ago made him a worldwide advocate for embryonic stem cell research and gave him a hate-love relationship with the Christian community, died Sunday of heart failure, his family and publicist announced Monday, October 11.
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NASA -- Gordon Cooper Jr., the astronaut who piloted the sixth and last flight of the Mercury program and later commanded Gemini 5, died earlier today at his home in Ventura, Calif. He was 77 years old...
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A memorial was held Saturday for Jack Hensley, an American engineer who was beheaded by his captors in Iraq earlier this week. Hensley and two other engineers, Eugene Armstrong and Kenneth Bigley, were
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Al Shugart, a pioneer in the  computer disk drive industry and one of Silicon Valley's most  colorful entrepreneurs, has died. He was 76.
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The surviving astronauts of the Mercury 7 offered tribute Friday to compatriot Gordon &quot;Gordo&quot; Cooper, who died Oct. 4. At a memorial gathering at Johnson Space Center in Houston, former US Sen.
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KIRKLAND, Wash. - George Swift Schairer, a scientist whose discovery of Nazi wind tunnel research played a crucial role in development of swept-wing jets, died Thursday of complications from Alzheimerâs disease, his son said.
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Alan Shugart, the co-founder of hard drive maker Seagate Technology LLC, has died, the company said Wednesday. He was 76.
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Robert Kupperman, a government scientist who started warning of terrorist attacks against the United States more than 30 years ago, has died of complications from Parkinson's disease. He was 71.