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Charles Henry King Junior
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With an S.B Chemical Engineering from MIT, he received an S.M. in Aeronautics-Jet Propulsion from Caltech in 1946, a special program for military officers conceived by Gen. H. H. Arnold and Dr. T. Von Karman, to jump-start the U.S. in new aircraft technology. At United Aircraft, he made major contributions to ramjet and high energy fuels technology and was responsible for combustion elements of the first U.S. liquid oxygen - liquid hydrogen rocket engine the Pratt and Whitney RL-10. At NASA from 1962, he first managed all engines for manned space flight, then launch vehicles, was Director of Engineering for Apollo and Apollo Soyuz Programs, and retired in 1980 as Director Engineering and Logistics for Space Transportation Systems (Space Shuttle) Operations.
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