Able may refer to: * Able (1920 automobile), a small French cyclecar *

Able (rocket stage) Able rocket stage, is the second stage in the Vanguard rocket cutaway view Able rocket stage engine in the foreground The Able rocket stage was a rocket stage manufactured in the United States by Aerojet as the second of three stages of the Va ...

, an upper stage for Vanguard, Atlas, and Thor rockets * Able (surname) * ABLE account, a savings plan for people with disabilities * Able UK, British ship breaking and recycling company * Able, Colorado, a community in the United States * Association for Better Living and Education, a non-profit Church of Scientology organization * Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Laws Enforcement Commission, a.k.a. Able Commission * USNS ''Able'' (T-AGOS-20), a U.S. Navy oceanographic survey ship * Able space probes, probes in the

Pioneer program The Pioneer programs were two series of United States lunar and planetary space probes exploration. The first program, which ran from 1958 to 1960, unsuccessfully attempted to send spacecraft to orbit the Moon, successfully sent one spacecraft to ...

* Able, a U.S. 1946 nuclear weapon test, part of

Operation Crossroads Operation Crossroads was a pair of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in mid-1946. They were the first nuclear weapon tests since Trinity in July 1945, and the first detonations of nuclear devices since the ...

* Able, one of the first two

monkeys in space Before humans went into space in the 1960s, several other animals were launched into space, including numerous other primates, so that scientists could investigate the biological effects of spaceflight. The United States launched flights contai ...

to return to Earth alive * The first letter of the Able-Baker

spelling alphabet A spelling alphabet ( also called by various other names) is a set of words used to represent the letters of an alphabet in oral communication, especially over a two-way radio or telephone. The words chosen to represent the letters sound sufficie ...

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