Read more about the article Maxime Faget: An Engineering Genius

S69-64137 (1969) --- Maxime A. Faget, Director of Engineering and Development, Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas, holds a model of an early space shuttle vehicle. Photo credit: NASA

Maxime Faget: An Engineering Genius

“It’s hard to tell people how you invent something. You see a problem-you solve a problem. I enjoy solving problems.”Maxime A. Faget Maxime Faget was a Belizean-born 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. Faget developed many of the innovative ideas and design concepts that have been incorporated into all of the manned spacecraft flown by the United States. His accomplishments included…

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July 6, 2021

Read more about the article François Hussenot: Flight Data Recorder

François Hussenot. Photo credits: Wikipedia/Hussenographe

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François Hussenot: Flight Data Recorder

The pilot and manufacturer Colonel François Hussenot was a French engineer who was responsible for inventing the first flight recorder back in the late 1930s. The celebrated "black box" was manufactured by Sagem which got later acquired by Safran Electronics & Defense in 2005. François Hussenot began his career in 1935 as a test engineer at the Centre d'Essais de Matériels Aériens (CEMA) in Villacoublay, then at the Centre d'Essais en Vol (CEV) in Marignane. He specialized in studying, manufacturing, and…

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July 5, 2021

Read more about the article Gene Kranz: Be Tough and Competent!

S65-22203 (April 1965) -- Prior to the Gemini-Titan 4 mission, flight director Eugene F. Kranz is pictured during a simulation at the Flight Director console in Houston's Mission Control Center on the Manned Spacecraft Center site. GT-4 was the first mission to be at least partially controlled from the Houston site. Photo credit: NASA

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Gene Kranz: Be Tough and Competent!

Gene Kranz is an American aerospace engineer, a former fighter pilot, and a retired NASA Flight Director and manager. He worked at U.S. Air Force, and flew high-performance jet fighter aircraft, including the F-80, F-86, and F-100. In 1958, he worked as a flight-test engineer for McDonnell Aircraft, developing the Quail Decoy Missile for B-52 and B-47 aircraft. Kranz joined the NASA Space Task Group at Langley, Virginia, in 1960, and was assigned the position of assistant flight director for Project…

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July 5, 2021

Read more about the article Konstantin Tsiolkovsky & Rocket Equation

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in his workshop in Kaluga, Russia. SovfotoGetty Images

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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky & Rocket Equation

Today we will know about another rocket scientist who pioneered astronautic theory — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. He is also regarded as one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry and astronautics. Along with Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Hermann Oberth, and Robert H. Goddard, he is one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry and astronautics. His works later inspired leading Soviet rocket engineers Sergei Korolev and Valentin Glushko who contributed to the success of the Soviet space program. Tsiolkovsky at work. Photo Credits: Ruscosmos…

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July 5, 2021

Read more about the article Hermann Oberth: German Father of Rocketry

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Hermann Oberth: German Father of Rocketry

Hermann Oberth was a German scientist who is considered to be one of the founders of modern astronautics along with Tsiolkovsky and Goddard. He is also called the German father of Rocketry. He discovered the Oberth Effect, wherein a rocket engine generates greater mechanical energy when traveling at higher speeds than at lower speeds. Hermann Oberth Photo Credits: Mondadori Publishers Herman Oberth was born in 1894, in Romania. As a young man, Oberth got scarlet fever and was sent to Italy…

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