Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants by John Drury Clark

Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants

John Drury Clark

214 pages first pub 1972 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced

Description

Ignition! is the inside story of the Cold War era search for a rocket propellant that 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],"...

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