Karel Bossart, the Glossary
Karel Jan Bossart (February 9, 1904 – August 3, 1975) was an innovative rocket designer and creator of the Atlas ICBM.[1]
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33 relations: Aerospace engineering, Antwerp, Belgian American Educational Foundation, Belgians, Belgium, Centaur (rocket stage), Central Intelligence Agency, Citizenship of the United States, Cold War, Convair, Expendable launch system, Florida International University, International Air & Space Hall of Fame, Jupiter, Launch vehicle, Mariner program, Mars, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Monocoque, Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, San Diego, San Diego Air & Space Museum, Saturn, Sergei Korolev, SM-65 Atlas, TV.com, United States Air Force, Université libre de Bruxelles, Venus, Wernher von Braun, What's My Line?.
- 20th-century Belgian engineers
- Atlas (rocket family)
- Engineers from Antwerp
- Intercontinental ballistic missiles of the United States
Aerospace engineering
Aerospace engineering is the primary field of engineering concerned with the development of aircraft and spacecraft.
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Antwerp
Antwerp (Antwerpen; Anvers) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium.
Belgian American Educational Foundation
The Belgian American Educational Foundation (BAEF) is an educational charity.
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Belgians
Belgians (Belgen; Belges; Belgier) are people identified with the Kingdom of Belgium, a federal state in Western Europe.
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Belgium
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.
Centaur (rocket stage)
The Centaur is a family of rocket propelled upper stages that has been in use since 1962.
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Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.
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Citizenship of the United States
Citizenship of the United States is a legal status that entails Americans with specific rights, duties, protections, and benefits in the United States.
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Cold War
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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Convair
Convair, previously Consolidated Vultee, was an American aircraft-manufacturing company that later expanded into rockets and spacecraft.
Expendable launch system
An expendable launch system (or expendable launch vehicle/ELV) is a launch vehicle that can be launched only once, after which its components are either destroyed during reentry or discarded in space.
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Florida International University
Florida International University (FIU) is a public research university with its main campus in University Park, Florida.
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International Air & Space Hall of Fame
The International Air & Space Hall of Fame is an honor roll of people, groups, organizations, or things that have contributed significantly to the advancement of aerospace flight and technology, sponsored by the San Diego Air & Space Museum.
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Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.
Launch vehicle
A launch vehicle is typically a rocket-powered vehicle designed to carry a payload (a crewed spacecraft or satellites) from Earth's surface or lower atmosphere to outer space.
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Mariner program
The Mariner program was conducted by the American space agency NASA to explore other planets.
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Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Monocoque
Monocoque, also called structural skin, is a structural system in which loads are supported by an object's external skin, in a manner similar to an egg shell.
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Pioneer 10
Pioneer 10 (originally designated Pioneer F) is a NASA space probe launched in 1972 that completed the first mission to the planet Jupiter.
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Pioneer 11
Pioneer 11 (also known as Pioneer G) is a NASA robotic space probe launched on April 5, 1973, to study the asteroid belt, the environment around Jupiter and Saturn, the solar wind, and cosmic rays.
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The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR or RSFSR), previously known as the Russian Soviet Republic and the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, and unofficially as Soviet Russia,Declaration of Rights of the laboring and exploited people, article I. was an independent federal socialist state from 1917 to 1922, and afterwards the largest and most populous constituent republic of the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1922 to 1991, until becoming a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with priority of Russian laws over Union-level legislation in 1990 and 1991, the last two years of the existence of the USSR..
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San Diego
San Diego is a city on the Pacific Ocean coast in Southern California located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border.
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San Diego Air & Space Museum
San Diego Air & Space Museum (SDASM) is an aviation and space exploration museum in San Diego, California.
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Saturn
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter.
Sergei Korolev
Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov,; Serhii Pavlovych Koroliov,; 14 January 1966) was the lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s. Karel Bossart and Sergei Korolev are Early spaceflight scientists and rocket scientists.
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SM-65 Atlas
The SM-65 Atlas was the first operational intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) developed by the United States and the first member of the Atlas rocket family. Karel Bossart and SM-65 Atlas are Atlas (rocket family) and intercontinental ballistic missiles of the United States.
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TV.com
TV.com was a website owned by Red Ventures that covered television series and episodes with a focus on English-language shows made or broadcast in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
United States Air Force
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.
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Université libre de Bruxelles
The (Free University of Brussels; abbreviated ULB) is a French-speaking research university in Brussels, Belgium.
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Venus
Venus is the second planet from the Sun.
Wernher von Braun
Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (23 March 191216 June 1977) was a German-American aerospace engineer and space architect. Karel Bossart and Wernher von Braun are Early spaceflight scientists.
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What's My Line?
What's My Line? is a panel game show that originally ran in the United States, between 1950 and 1967, on CBS.
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See also
20th-century Belgian engineers
- Édouard Empain
- Édouard Hannon
- Émile Braun
- Adolphe Stoclet
- André Sterling
- Antonina Grégoire
- Arthur Vierendeel
- Bart Muys
- Carol Smidts
- Charles Lambert Manneback
- Clément Van Bogaert
- Claude Kévers-Pascalis
- Dirk Fransaer
- Dirk Frimout
- Edgar Sengier
- Ernest Oscar Tips
- Frank De Winne
- Gabi Tolkowsky
- Georges Gutelman
- Guy B. Marin
- Hélène Mallebrancke
- Jacky Eeckelaert
- Jean de Wouters
- Jean van Bladel
- Jean-Pierre Clamadieu
- Joachim Coens
- Josef Christiaens
- Karel Bossart
- Lambert Jadot
- Luc Bossyns
- Marcel Loncin
- Marcel Tolkowsky
- Marguerite Massart
- Marie Louise Compernolle
- Maurice Anthony Biot
- Maurice Lemaître (mechanical engineer)
- Max van Rysselberghe
- Natasha Devroye
- Odon Jadot
- Paul Drumaux
- Philippe Samyn
- Pierre De Muelenaere
- René Goormaghtigh
- Roger Nicolet
- Sophie Vandebroek
- Walter Peeters
- Willy Geysen
- Willy Stevens
Atlas (rocket family)
- 2020 SO
- Atlas (rocket family)
- Atlas E/F
- Atlas G
- Atlas H
- Atlas I
- Atlas II
- Atlas III
- Atlas LV-3B
- Atlas SLV-3
- Atlas V
- Atlas-Able
- Atlas-Agena
- Atlas-Centaur
- Common Core Booster
- GX (rocket)
- Karel Bossart
- List of Atlas launches
- List of Atlas launches (1957–1959)
- List of Atlas launches (1960–1969)
- List of Atlas launches (1970–1979)
- List of Atlas launches (1980–1989)
- List of Atlas launches (1990–1999)
- List of Atlas launches (2000–2009)
- List of Atlas launches (2010–2019)
- List of Atlas launches (2020–2029)
- RTV-A-2 Hiroc
- SM-65 Atlas
- SM-65A Atlas
- SM-65B Atlas
- SM-65C Atlas
- SM-65D Atlas
- SM-65E Atlas
- SM-65F Atlas
Engineers from Antwerp
- Alexandre Horowitz
- François Sainte de Wollant
- Jacky Eeckelaert
- Jean van Bladel
- Jean-Charles della Faille
- Karel Bossart
- Michiel Coignet
- Robert Vinçotte
- Victor Guidalevitch
- Walter Peeters
- Wenceslas Cobergher
Intercontinental ballistic missiles of the United States
- Ares (missile)
- BGM-75 AICBM
- Common Missile
- HGM-25A Titan I
- Hard Mobile Launcher
- Karel Bossart
- LGM-118 Peacekeeper
- LGM-25C Titan II
- LGM-30 Minuteman
- LGM-30 Minuteman chronology
- LGM-35 Sentinel
- MGM-134 Midgetman
- Minuteman Mobility Test Train
- Missile (1988 film)
- Missile combat crew
- Missile launch control center
- Peacekeeper Rail Garrison
- RTV-A-2 Hiroc
- SM-65 Atlas
- SM-68 Titan
- Titan (rocket family)