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Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants

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Jonathan Todd Ross

9 Hours 20 Minutes

Random House (Audio)

May 2018

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Ignition! is the inside story of the Cold War era search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space. A favorite of Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, listeners will want to tune into this 'really good book on rocket[s],' available for the first time in audio.

Ignition! is the story of the search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space. This search was a hazardous enterprise carried out by rival labs who worked against the known laws of nature, with no guarantee of success or safety. Acclaimed scientist and sci-fi author John Drury Clark writes with irreverent and eyewitness immediacy about the development of the explosive fuels strong enough to negate the relentless restraints of gravity. The resulting volume is as much a memoir as a work of history, sharing a behind-the-scenes view of an enterprise which eventually took men to the moon, missiles to the planets, and satellites to outer space. A classic work in the history of science, and described as 'a good book on rocket stuff...that's a really fun one' by SpaceX founder Elon Musk, listeners will want to get their hands on this influential classic, available for the first time in decades.

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