John Drury Clark

Ignition!

An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 136mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 447g
• ISBN-13: 9780813599175
• ISBN-10: 0813599172
• Artikelnr.: 50761901

Autorenporträt

Clark, John D

Inhaltsangabe

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