Space Task Group
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The Space Task Group was a working group of NASA engineers created in 1958, tasked with managing America's human spaceflight programs. Headed by Robert Gilruth and based at the Langley Research Center
The Headquarters of the Space Task Group (STG) at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia
Sign on the Space Task Group building in June 1961
Maxime Faget
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Maxime Allen "Max" Faget was an American mechanical engineer. Faget was the designer of the Mercury spacecraft, and contributed to the later Gemini and Apollo spacecraft as well as the Space Shuttle.
Space Task Group
…Center, and 10 had been assigned from Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Original members of the group included Charles Donlan, Gilruth's deputy; Max Faget, head of engineering; Chuck Mathews, head of flight operations; Chris Kraft, also in flight operations; and Glynn Lunney, who at 21 was the youngest…
Maxime Faget
Space shuttle model, created by Faget, April 1, 1969