Industries Inc., established in 1982. One of the projects of the company was the Wake Shield Facility, a device to create near-perfect vacuum in the thermosphere. The WSF flew three times with a Space Shuttle in 1994–96 (STS-60, STS-69, STS-80). In 1962, Faget received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement. Faget was inducted into the 1969 National Inventors Hall of Fame, and received the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal and John J. Montgomery Award. He was inducted into the Houston National Space Hall of Fame in 1969. He was inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame in 1990. Faget was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 2020. Faget died of bladder cancer on October 9, 2004, aged 83. Patents Faget was co-inventor on five United States patents issued to Space Industries, Inc. between 1988 and 1992: Patent No. -----------------Title Spacecraft operable in two alternative flight modes''' Spacecraft with articulated solar array Modular spacecraft system Apparatus and method for docking spacecraft Structural latch for vehicle coupling mechanisms MAX-1 spacecraft The private spaceflight organization Copenhagen Suborbitals was developing a piloted spacecraft named after Faget, the MAX-1, but the project was halted due to issues around the effects of rapid acceleration of humans in a standing position. See also Sergei Korolev References External links Interview with Maxime Faget for NOVA series: To the Moon WGBH Educational Foundation, raw footage, 1998 NASA biography Air & Space Smithsonian Article 1921 births 2004 deaths American mechanical engineers United States Navy personnel of World War II ASME Medal recipients Belizean emigrants to the United States City College of San Francisco alumni Deaths from bladder cancer Louisiana State University alumni NASA people People from Dangriga Project Mercury United States Navy officers 20th-century American engineers 20th-century American inventors Deaths from cancer in Texas