Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants - Paperback

$34.95

Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants - Paperback

Name: Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants - Paperback
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SKU: 9780813595832
Price: 34.95 USD
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by John Drury Clark

$34.95

Book Overview

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.

ISBN	9780813595832
Author	John Drury Clark
Publisher	Rutgers University Press Classics
Genre	Biography, Education, Technology, and History
Format	Paperback
Published	May 2018
Language	ENG- English
Pages	216
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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