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Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 2,882 ratings — published 1972
Gravity’s Rainbow (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as rockets)
avg rating 4.01 — 48,147 ratings — published 1973
Rocket Boys (Coalwood #1)
by (shelved 10 times as rockets)
avg rating 4.20 — 24,134 ratings — published 1998
Rocket Propulsion Elements (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as rockets)
avg rating 4.48 — 231 ratings — published 1962
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as rockets)
avg rating 4.47 — 6,494 ratings — published 2021
Modern Engineering for Design of Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines (Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics)
by (shelved 5 times as rockets)
avg rating 4.66 — 29 ratings — published 1992
Fundamentals of Astrodynamics (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering)
by (shelved 4 times as rockets)
avg rating 4.25 — 310 ratings — published 1971
Rocket Ship Galileo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as rockets)
avg rating 3.73 — 8,348 ratings — published 1947
Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rockets)
avg rating 4.31 — 10,522 ratings — published 2000
Moonglow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as rockets)
avg rating 3.80 — 34,735 ratings — published 2016
3, 2, 1, Go! (I Like to Read)
by (shelved 3 times as rockets)
avg rating 3.29 — 143 ratings — published 2015
Cranky, Crabby Crow (Saves the World)
by (shelved 2 times as rockets)
avg rating 4.14 — 598 ratings — published
Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as rockets)
avg rating 4.48 — 1,335 ratings — published 2024
Rocket Manual for Amateurs (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as rockets)
avg rating 4.53 — 19 ratings — published 1960
The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as rockets)
avg rating 3.87 — 87 ratings — published 1994
How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as rockets)
avg rating 4.13 — 934 ratings — published 2016
Spacecraft Systems Engineering 3rd Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as rockets)
avg rating 4.24 — 58 ratings — published 1991
Chicks Rule!: A Picture Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as rockets)
avg rating 3.96 — 309 ratings — published 2019
Pine & Boof: Blast Off! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as rockets)
avg rating 3.81 — 280 ratings — published 2018
Tiny Little Rocket (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as rockets)
avg rating 3.67 — 357 ratings — published 2018
Rocket Science for Babies (Baby University)
by (shelved 2 times as rockets)
avg rating 4.09 — 854 ratings — published 2016
Introduction to Space Dynamics (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering)
by (shelved 2 times as rockets)
avg rating 3.72 — 71 ratings — published 1986
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as rockets)
avg rating 3.87 — 9,382 ratings — published 2016
Interstellar Cinderella (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as rockets)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,734 ratings — published 2015
Roaring Rockets (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as rockets)
avg rating 3.86 — 616 ratings — published 1997
Rockets: Sulfur, Sputnik and Scramjets (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as rockets)
avg rating 3.78 — 9 ratings — published 2003
The Man Who Knew The Way to the Moon (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 1 time as rockets)
avg rating 3.83 — 4,828 ratings — published 2019
Beyond the Red Horizon: The Secret Rise of the Chinese Space Program (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as rockets)
avg rating 3.25 — 4 ratings — published
Tate Tuber, Space Spud (I Like to Read Comics)
by (shelved 1 time as rockets)
avg rating 4.19 — 16 ratings — published
The Dinosaur Seed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rockets)
avg rating 3.75 — 20 ratings — published
Integrated Design for Space Transportation System (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rockets)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 2015
Robert H. Goddard (THE DA CAPO SERIES IN SCIENCE)
by (shelved 1 time as rockets)
avg rating 4.10 — 10 ratings — published 1988
Aiming for the Stars: The Dreamers and Doers of the Space Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rockets)
avg rating 3.50 — 10 ratings — published 1999
Rockets, Missiles & Space Travel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rockets)
avg rating 4.49 — 41 ratings — published 1953
The New World on Mars: What We Can Create on the Red Planet (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as rockets)
avg rating 3.69 — 186 ratings — published 2024
Mars Direct: Space Exploration, the Red Planet, and the Human Future: A Special from Tarcher/ Penguin (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as rockets)
avg rating 3.95 — 190 ratings — published 2013
The Case for Mars (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rockets)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,994 ratings — published 1996
I Still Have All My Fingers (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rockets)
avg rating 4.33 — 6 ratings — published 2011
Rocket Ship, Solo Trip (The Rocket Ship Series)
by (shelved 1 time as rockets)
avg rating 4.11 — 189 ratings — published 2024
Hush, Little Rocket (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rockets)
avg rating 3.81 — 99 ratings — published
Bedtime Blastoff! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rockets)
avg rating 3.46 — 130 ratings — published 2016
Astro Bunnies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rockets)
avg rating 3.52 — 151 ratings — published 2001
Mechanics And Thermodynamics Of Propulsion (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rockets)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 2009
Fundamentos de Termodinâmica Aplicada. Análise Energética e Exergética (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rockets)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Aerodinâmica Incompressível: Fundamentos (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rockets)
avg rating 3.33 — 3 ratings — published
Introduction to Flight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rockets)
avg rating 4.41 — 307 ratings — published 1978
Space Travel - Children's Soft Cover Fun Facts Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rockets)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rockets)
avg rating 3.96 — 268 ratings — published 1999
Digital Signal Processing Implementations: Using DSP Microprocessors (with examples from TMS320C54XX)
by (shelved 1 time as rockets)
avg rating 3.92 — 100 ratings — published 2003
Go, Flight!: The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control, 1965–1992 (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight)
by (shelved 1 time as rockets)
avg rating 4.31 — 244 ratings — published 2015
“The only possible source of trouble connected with the acid is its corrosive nature, which can be overcome by the use of corrosion-resistant materials.' Ha! If they had known the trouble that nitrid acid was to cause before it was finally domesticated, the authors would probably have stepped out of the lab and shot themselves.”
― Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants
― Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants
“All the months of calm dispassionate analysis give way to a few minutes of emotion, an outburst of hope and horror as the inert beast comes alive for the first time, shakes itself and its new-found tail of fire, and starts slowly-so slowly-to move. For the first few seconds it is purely a spectacle, for with the eyes alone involved, one can see but not succumb. But when the great crackling Mach 1 roar arrives, and the very ground under you shakes, then you are there, you are part of it, and you laugh or cry or yell or whisper”
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