Rockets


Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants
Gravity’s Rainbow
Rocket Boys (Coalwood #1)
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
Rocket Propulsion Elements
Modern Engineering for Design of Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines (Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics)
Fundamentals of Astrodynamics (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering)
Rocket Ship Galileo
Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
Moonglow
3, 2, 1, Go! (I Like to Read)
Cranky, Crabby Crow (Saves the World)
Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age
Rocket Manual for Amateurs
The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era
We Report Space by Jared HaworthThe Practical Pyromaniac by William GurstelleThe Pyromaniac's Cookbook by John J. Poister'On Call'' by Allen B. Locklier Jr.A Professional's GuideTo Pyrotechnics by John Donner
Books for Pyromaniacs
5 books — 1 voter
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryAmelia, the Venutons and the Golden Cage by Evonne BlanchardAmelia, the Moochins and the Sapphire Palace by Evonne BlanchardAstronaut Handbook by Meghan MccarthyMousetronaut by Mark Edward Kelly
Children's Picture Books: Space Travel
121 books — 31 voters

Flak by Edward B. WestermannDusterman by Joseph M. Belardo Sr.The Flak Towers in Berlin, Hamburg and Vienna 1940-1950 by Michael FoedrowitzThe Skink in Canadian Service by Roger V. LucyBlazing Skies by John A. Hamilton
Antiaircraft
10 books — 1 voter

The Rainbow Fish by Marcus PfisterRoly-Poly Monster by Charity ToberRed Truck by Kersten HamiltonRed Sled by Lita JudgeGo Greenie! Are You Eating Something Red? by Ryan Sias
Preschool-'R'
10 books — 3 voters
Jinxed by Amy McCullochCode Name Flood by Laura  MartinThe Ark Plan by Laura  MartinPayback by Gordon KormanCriminal Destiny by Gordon Korman
Modern Juvenile Science Fiction
57 books — 8 voters

Michael Chabon
“ In children's drawings, all houses have chimneys, all monkeys eat bananas, and every rocket is a V-2. Even after decades of stepped-back multistage behemoths, chunky orbiters, and space planes, the midcentury-modern Enterprise, the polyhedral bulk of Imperial star destroyers and Borg cubes, the Ortho-Cyclen disk of Millennium Falcon - in our deepest imaginations the surest way to the nearest planet remains a trim cigar tapering to a pointed nose cone, poised on the tips of four swept-back axial ...more ”
― Michael Chabon, Moonglow

Gary Sinise
“ Careers, like rockets, don’t always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines. ”
― Gary Sinise

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