Ignition! : an informal history of liquid rocket propellants
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Ignition! : an informal history of liquid rocket propellants
（Rutgers University Press classics）
Rutgers University Press, c2017
- : pbk
Available at 4 libraries
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Originally published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1972
Includes index
Description about pbk based on 3rd printing, 2018
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A classic work in the history of science, and described as "a good book on rocket stuff...that's a really fun one" by SpaceX founder Elon Musk, readers will want to get their hands on this influential classic, available for the first time in decades.
This newly reissued debut book in the Rutgers University Press Classics imprint is the story of the search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space. This search was a hazardous enterprise carried out by rival labs who worked against the known laws of nature, with no guarantee of success or safety.
Acclaimed scientist and sci-fi author John Drury Clark writes with irreverent and eyewitness immediacy about the development of the explosive fuels strong enough to negate the relentless restraints of gravity. The resulting volume is as much a memoir as a work of history, sharing a behind-the-scenes view of an enterprise which eventually took men to the moon, missiles to the planets, and satellites to outer space.
Table of Contents
Contents
In Re John D. Clark - foreword by Issac Asimov
Preface
1 How It Started
2 Peenemunde and JPL
3 The Hunting of the Hypergol . . .
4 . . . and Its Mate
5 Peroxide - Always a Bridesmaid
6 Halogens and Politics and Deep Space
7 Performance
8 Lox and Flox and Cryogenics in General
9 What Ivan Was Doing
10 "Exotics"
11 The Hopeful Monoprops
12 High Density and the Higher Foolishness
13 What Happens Next
Glossary
Index
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