Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (Rutgers University Press Classics)

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A lot of the challenges were physical (how to stop the fuel freezing at above -56C this being a military requirement for example) or how to get the fuel to 'light' smoothly and political (programs start; money is awarded; companies pile in, fashions change and interests move on to another program that starts). If boron could be tamed as a rocket fuel additive, that would be very useful to present day space launches. Large portions of it where over my head certainly but graciously it was far from being the oblivious actor drily mispronouncing his way through chemical equations and statistics charts that I'd feared. Hinge by Alycia Pirmohamed was also shortlisted for the Michael Marks Poetry Award, 2020, and the press won the Michael Marks Publishers' Award in 2021.

Some of it is a bit technical for me (I did not do Chemistry at school only Physics - and that was years ago). For every potential solution, there was a mountain of dead-end possibilities that tantalizingly, infuriatingly, almost worked. 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, readers will want to get their hands on this influential classic, available for the first time in decades.I don’t know about the rest of you but just the name Red Fuming Nitric Acid has about the same sense of safety as Angry Penis Eating Spider, I guess rocket chemists had to be a little crazy. A. Yes, so long as you have not previously published a chapbook, pamphlet, or book-length collection. So I'm hesitant to give this book a 2 star review, but I think this'll be useful to other readers who are looking for a book closer to "Skunk Works", whereas this book mostly amounts to information budding space programs would be better off having in a giant Excel sheet of attempted propellant mixtures. Considering the difficulties involved in working with such a miserable substance, the achievement can fairly be classified as heroic.

Most of us lack any understanding of the fact that its development was the result of a whole lot of hard scientific work, and that work required brilliance (and bravery) and had many frustrating dead ends.I also liked his description of how ignition delays of different substance combinations were measured and how the test setups ran the entire spectrum of complexity. However, we request that you don’t send us individual poems of more than 50 lines in length at this stage. Tuve suerte, pues tras el susto, volvieron a estar disponibles 3 ejemplares, y decidí no perder la ocasión otra vez. He does this fearlessly as one might expect from a person now retired from his senior position with many of his more incompetent - or simply unlucky - contemporaries dead (literally). The freezing points of the HNO3-N2O4-H