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Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 3,028 ratings — published 1972
Gravity’s Rainbow (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 49,745 ratings — published 1973
Rocket Propulsion Elements (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 242 ratings — published 1962
Handbook of Model Rocketry (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 171 ratings — published 1970
Rocket Boys (Coalwood #1)
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avg rating 4.21 — 24,679 ratings — published 1998
Introduction to Flight (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.41 — 316 ratings — published 1978
Aerothermodynamics of Gas Turbine and Rocket Propulsion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 18 ratings — published 1997
Fundamentals of Astrodynamics (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering)
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avg rating 4.26 — 315 ratings — published 1971
Modern Engineering for Design of Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines (Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics)
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avg rating 4.67 — 30 ratings — published 1992
Modern High-Power Rocketry 2 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 51 ratings — published 2005
How to Design, Build, and Test Small Liquid-Fuel Rocket Engines (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 9 ratings — published 1967
Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 3,790 ratings — published 1978
International Reference Guide to Space Launch Systems (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.54 — 13 ratings — published 1991
Elements of Propulsion: Gas Turbines And Rockets (AIAA Education Series)
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avg rating 4.48 — 21 ratings — published 2006
The Right Stuff (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.23 — 56,669 ratings — published 1979
Saturn V Flight Manual (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.69 — 36 ratings — published 2005
Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 1,675 ratings — published
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 10,928 ratings — published
Het duizend eilanden experiment (Ontdekking van de mens, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as rocketry)
avg rating 3.97 — 108 ratings — published
Hearthspace (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as rocketry)
avg rating 3.47 — 274 ratings — published 2025
Make: High-Power Rockets - Construction and Certification for Thousands of Feet and Beyond (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published
Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Propulsion (Addison-Wesley Series in Aerospace Science)
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avg rating 4.00 — 8 ratings — published
The X-15 Rocket Plane: Flying the First Wings into Space (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 109 ratings — published 2013
Colony (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 3.75 — 252 ratings — published 1953
A Science Fiction Omnibus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 572 ratings — published 1973
The Chemistry and Technology of Solid Rocket Propellants: (A Treatise on Solid Propellants) (First Edition)
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avg rating 4.00 — 6 ratings — published
Starman: The Truth Behind The Legend Of Yuri Gagarin (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 1,211 ratings — published 1998
Rain Of Iron And Ice: The Very Real Threat Of Comet And Asteroid Bombardment (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 50 ratings — published 1996
The Scientist & Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.58 — 129 ratings — published 1997
Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance (Inside Technology)
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avg rating 4.08 — 90 ratings — published 1990
Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 17,981 ratings — published 1997
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 103,711 ratings — published 1999
The Wright Brothers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 100,538 ratings — published 2015
The Martian (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 1,357,674 ratings — published 2011
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 77,677 ratings — published 1995
The Art of Jim Burns: Hyperluminal (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 34 ratings — published 2014
Rocket Manual for Amateurs (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.53 — 19 ratings — published 1960
Riding Rockets (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5,033 ratings — published 2006
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 61,227 ratings — published 2010
Make: Rockets: Down-to-Earth Rocket Science (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 38 ratings — published 2014
Fundamentals of Aerodynamics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 402 ratings — published 1984
Flight: My Life in Mission Control (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 1,191 ratings — published 2001
The Medusa Chronicles (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 2,637 ratings — published 2016
The Allende Letters and the VARO Edition of The Case for the UFO (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.55 — 22 ratings — published 2007
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 10,798 ratings — published 1994
One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rocketry)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,107 ratings — published 2019
Dissidence (The Corporation Wars, #1)
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avg rating 3.61 — 1,449 ratings — published 2016
Ask an Astronaut: My Guide to Life in Space (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 2,950 ratings — published 2017
Encyclopedia of U.S. Spacecraft (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.50 — 8 ratings — published 1985
The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 108 ratings — published 1987
“Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in Russia, Hermann Olberth in Germany, and Robert Goddard in the United States all came up with an eerily similar concept for using liquid fuel to power rockets for human spaceflight. I've seen this pointed out as an odd coincidence, one of those moments when an idea inexplicably emerges in multiple places at once. But when I read through each of these three men's biographies I discovered why they all had the same idea: all three of them were obsessed with Jules Verne's 1865 novel "De la terre a la lune (From the Earth to the Moon)." The novel details the strange adventures of three space explorers who travel to the moon together. What sets Verne's book apart from the other speculative fiction of the time was his careful attention to the physics involved in space travel -- his characters take pains to explain to each other exactly how and why each concept would work. All three real-life scientists -- the Russian, the German, and the American -- were following what they had learned from a French science fiction writer.”
― Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
― Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
“Rockets now evoke a slightly old-fashioned kind of wonder, because they stand for an obsolete version of technological prowess. In the scheme of history which has become the most popular version of the recent past, the Space Age counts as the final phase of the Age of Industry – its culmination, just before the paradigm changed and the Age of Information replaced steel with digits.”
― Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin
― Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin