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Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 2,901 ratings — published 1972
Gravity’s Rainbow (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 48,386 ratings — published 1973
Rocket Propulsion Elements (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 231 ratings — published 1962
Handbook of Model Rocketry (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 169 ratings — published 1970
Rocket Boys (Coalwood #1)
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avg rating 4.20 — 24,198 ratings — published 1998
Introduction to Flight (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.41 — 311 ratings — published 1978
Aerothermodynamics of Gas Turbine and Rocket Propulsion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as rocketry)
avg rating 4.50 — 18 ratings — published 1997
Fundamentals of Astrodynamics (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering)
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avg rating 4.25 — 310 ratings — published 1971
Modern Engineering for Design of Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines (Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics)
by (shelved 3 times as rocketry)
avg rating 4.66 — 29 ratings — published 1992
Modern High-Power Rocketry 2 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 50 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 — 3,704 ratings — published 1978
International Reference Guide to Space Launch Systems (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.57 — 14 ratings — published 1991
Elements of Propulsion: Gas Turbines And Rockets (AIAA Education Series)
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avg rating 4.50 — 20 ratings — published 2006
The Right Stuff (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.23 — 55,742 ratings — published 1979
Saturn V Flight Manual (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.71 — 35 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 — 1,648 ratings — published
Hearthspace (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as rocketry)
avg rating 3.50 — 154 ratings — published 2025
Make: High-Power Rockets - Construction and Certification for Thousands of Feet and Beyond (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rocketry)
avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published
Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Propulsion (Addison-Wesley Series in Aerospace Science)
by (shelved 1 time as rocketry)
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 4.21 — 106 ratings — published 2013
Colony (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 3.73 — 240 ratings — published 1953
A Science Fiction Omnibus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 564 ratings — published 1973
The Chemistry and Technology of Solid Rocket Propellants: (A Treatise on Solid Propellants) (First Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as rocketry)
avg rating 4.00 — 6 ratings — published
Starman: The Truth Behind The Legend Of Yuri Gagarin (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 1,202 ratings — published 1998
Rain Of Iron And Ice: The Very Real Threat Of Comet And Asteroid Bombardment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rocketry)
avg rating 4.29 — 48 ratings — published 1996
The Scientist & Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.57 — 125 ratings — published 1997
Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance (Inside Technology)
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avg rating 4.11 — 83 ratings — published 1990
Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rocketry)
avg rating 4.30 — 17,836 ratings — published 1997
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rocketry)
avg rating 4.10 — 102,413 ratings — published 1999
The Wright Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rocketry)
avg rating 4.18 — 98,886 ratings — published 2015
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rocketry)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,291,305 ratings — published 2011
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rocketry)
avg rating 3.99 — 76,489 ratings — published 1995
The Art of Jim Burns: Hyperluminal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rocketry)
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)
by (shelved 1 time as rocketry)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,950 ratings — published 2006
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 60,446 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 4.45 — 398 ratings — published 1984
Flight: My Life in Mission Control (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 1,171 ratings — published 2001
The Medusa Chronicles (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 2,585 ratings — published 2016
The Allende Letters and the VARO Edition of The Case for the UFO (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.52 — 21 ratings — published 2007
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 10,348 ratings — published 1994
One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rocketry)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,032 ratings — published 2019
Dissidence (The Corporation Wars, #1)
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avg rating 3.62 — 1,432 ratings — published 2016
Ask an Astronaut: My Guide to Life in Space (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 2,892 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 3.68 — 108 ratings — published 1987
Rockets: Defying Gravity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 178 ratings — published
Dr. Space: The Life of Wernher Von Braun (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 371 ratings — published 2005
“It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that’s the least of the problem. It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water-with which it reacts explosively. It can be kept in some of the ordinary structural metals-steel, copper, aluminium, etc.-because of the formation of a thin film of insoluble metal fluoride which protects the bulk of the metal, just as the invisible coat of oxide on aluminium keeps it from burning up in the atmosphere. If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes.”
― Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants
― Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants
“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
