Clark John Drury Clark

Ignition! (eBook, PDF)

An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780813599199
• Artikelnr.: 55102405

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