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... you, or did it just fall right into place? '''Lee:''' Well, I remember Max coming to me, because Max was one of the men who helped NACA become NASA, he and Bob ... your headquarters of the local centers, you have directors of different groups of people. As Max was director of engineering and development, so was Gilruth at Langley director of engineering. You ... were challenged and we would get funding to do these different ideas. I remember asking Max—every Saturday night for years several couples got together and took dancing lessons. This is ...

... Group I had, basically, after the basic configuration was decided, and the basic configuration was—Max and I had an interview with I think it was Life magazine, and they published ... need landing gear, although, in retrospect, it probably should have had it. Max didn’t like it, because Max wanted to use parachutes. He thought that making something, an airplane type thing ... was sort of the death knell. Well, when Shuttle came along, I remember teasing Max about, “Well, Max, are you going to make this sea state four, also?” The answer was no ...

... that vehicle, because it wasn’t interchangeable with the other vehicles. Then about that time, Max was getting ready to retire and both his deputy and his assistant director for avionics, all of them were about ready to retire. I think Max was being encouraged by certain people to retire. So they selected two system division chiefs ... . But later on he gave me some congratulatory salutations, and the same with Max. I think Max appreciated my management capability and my interest in doing things technically within NASA. He used ...

... differently? Somewhere along in there, Chuck wanted Johnny Mayer's group. His group worked for Max in orbital mechanics. And Chuck felt like he ought to have that capability in his ... big reorganization and Chuck was made division chief of the Spacecraft Technology Division reporting to Max Faget, which he'd never done before. Chuck picked two assistants, Ralph S. Sawyer and ... Joseph G. Thibodaux—no, not Guy Thibodaux. One of the guys who became later—got Max's job from propulsion, do you know his name? '''Rusnak:''' Henry O. Pohl. '''Chilton:''' Yes ...

... those tests, but when the Mercury Project came up, I was called. Dr. Gilruth and Max Faget and two or three others had been doing some studies and making frequent trips ... some appearance of malfunction in the barostats that were installed. So he and I and Max and, I think, one of the other guys that was working with us—and we ... . When we began to expand the Engineering and Development Directorate, which was headed up by Max Faget, we then separated SEDD into several divisions, creating Propulsion and Power and Crew Systems ...

... center in Houston, and because of the judgment of people like Bob Gilruth, Chris Kraft, Max Maxime A. Faget, didn't want to hire a bunch of old aircraft workers, aerospace ... home and telling my wife, "Okay, yes, I think I've arrived today." Laughter But Max Faget is just a brilliant person. He still used a slide rule. He could figure ... in endless meetings on how to solve that, contractors and people. One Saturday, in walks Max, who had pictures and some prototype material and stuff he'd gone and bought with ...

... people for us. '''Arabian:''' George Low. I told you about him. To a certain degree, Max Faget, but his thinking, in my mind, I wasn't always in agreement with a ... School District and worked down there. But I lived next door to Max Maxime A. Faget, and many times Max and Nancy Faget would have people over, and we would be there ... meet many of the other folks, but generally, of course, the people that were at Max’s level. But even there we had other people in our neighborhood that were involved ...

... it all, or did you have distributed computers? Did you use data buses? I guess Max Faget had three different organizations working on these types of problems. He had a group ... that I retired at the end of 1980, along with some distinguished company: Chris Kraft, Max Faget, and Kenny Kenneth S. Kleinknecht. There was a quirk in the retirement rules that ... did most of the initial work on those concepts. That was good, too. I remember Max coming up to me. One of the things working for Eagle was you often worked ...

... coming from Langley. You know, the old crew under Chris Christopher C. Kraft, Jr. and Max Maxime A. Faget, Scott Simpkinson from Cleveland, and that type, George Low, Gilruth himself, they ... make it, in the research field before they went into managing these big efforts. '''Dinkel:''' Max Faget keeps up busy with his NACA stories. He's a pretty colorful character. '''Cortright:''' He is. I like Max. I'm very fond of Max. He always was stimulating. '''Dinkel:''' Yes, sir, that's the right word ...

... the same songs, different tongues, different tunes, but the same '' ''Songs" '' The Krones: Beatrice and Max, A World in Tune: Folk Songs of Our Inter-Americana Southern Neighbors, Book III, Kjos ... , astronauts asleep in orbit are awakened with music - from rock to classical, their choice. ''' Throughout Max Krone's tenure at USC (1940 - 1967) and as Founder/Director of the Idyllwild School ...

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