Ignition! : : An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants /

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

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 guar...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
VerfasserIn:
Clark, John Drury,
MitwirkendeR:
Asimov, Isaac,
TeilnehmendeR:
Asimov, Isaac.
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2018]
©1972
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (302 p.) :; 2 black and white photographs.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • In Re John D. Clark
  • 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

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