Ignition!

Klappentext Tells the story of the search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space. Acclaimed scientist and sci-fi author John D. Clark writes with irreverent and eyewitness immediacy about the development of the explosive fuels strong enough to negate the relentless restraints of gravity.

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Clark, John D

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Contents
In Re John D. Clark - foreword by Issac Asimov
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