Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (Unabridged) Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (Unabridged)

Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

Ignition! is the inside story of the Cold War era search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space. A favorite of Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, listeners will want to tune into this "really good book on rocket[s]," available for the first time in audio.

Ignition! 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. 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, listeners will want to get their hands on this influential classic, available for the first time in decades.

GENRE
Nonfiction
NARRATOR
JTR
Jonathan Todd Ross
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
09:19
hr min
RELEASED
2018
May 15
PUBLISHER
Random House Audio
SIZE
296.4
MB

Customer Reviews

Buelled ,

Must read for rocket engineers

Explaining the chemical fuel formulations, their use and problems with those that just are a very bad idea. Lessons learned from real world production and testing and firing of a huge number of propellants.
The great stories related here are a good read. The chemistry is way behind my level but I still learned a lot.

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