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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Los Angeles - In March, Nasa launched an experimental jet that reached a record-setting speed of about 8 050km/h. Now researchers want to leave that milestone in the dust.
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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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Sir Wally Herbert, the first man to cross the frozen surface of the Arctic Ocean on foot, has died at the age of 72, a friend of the polar explorer said Wednesday.
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Bert Bolin, a Swedish climate scientist and co-founder of the Nobel Peace-winning U.N. panel on climate change, has died at age 82.
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Bob Evans, 77, a computer scientist who helped popularize personal computing and served as a scientific adviser to the Taiwanese government, died of a heart ailment Sept.
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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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Mercury program astronaut Gordon Cooper was remembered Friday by NASA (news - web sites) officials and fellow space pioneers as &quot;not too bad of a pilot, but a heck of a good astronaut.
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Spacecraft design pioneer Maxime Faget has died at the age of 83. Faget is credited for conceiving Project Mercury, which put the first US astronauts into space, and was involved in the design of every US manned spacecraft afterward.
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Nobel laureate Maurice Wilkins, one of the scientists involved in the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, died Tuesday in London. He was 88.
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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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Pioneering astronaut Gordon Cooper has died in California, at age 77. He was one of the seven Mercury astronauts who led the way in the exploration of space.
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Gordon Cooper, one of the Mercury Seven astronauts who helped pioneer human space exploration, piloting the last of the Mercury missions and the troubled Gemini 5 flight, died on Monday.
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Astronaut Daniel Tani, orbiting Earth aboard the international space station, learned Wednesday that his mother had died in a car crash, marking what NASA officials believe is the first time a crew member has lost a close family member while in flight.
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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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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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Edmond Haggar, the pants pioneer who  helped build the casual clothing line that bears his name, has  died at the age of 88 at his home in Dallas, the Haggar  Clothing Co. said on Thursday.