Bossart: America's Forgotten Rocket Scientist (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780998330501)

Born in Belgium, Karel Jan Bossart moved to America and worked with brilliant and colorful aircraft designers in the 1930s. After the Second World War, he developed the first American intercontinental ballistic missile, employing radical innovations in design. Initially skeptical, the US Air Force embraced his plan after they realized that the Soviet Union was close to completing a similar weapon system.

Author: Don Mitchell
ISBN-10: 0998330507
ISBN-13: 9780998330501
Publisher: Mental Landscape, LLC
Language: English
Published: 11/07/2016
Pages: 210
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.44d