Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by John Drury Clark

Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants

John Drury Clark

302 pages first pub 1972 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced

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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 ...

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