
Ignition!
An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
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Jonathan Todd Ross
Ignition! is the inside story of the Cold War era search for a rocket propellant that 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 that eventually took men to the moon, missiles to the planets, and satellites to outer space. A classic work in the history of science, listeners will want to get their hands on this influential classic, available for the first time in decades.
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you don't need to know chemistry.
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the performance is quite good. The only flaw is that the narrator occasionally misreads Al as A capital i instead of A lowercase L and the same with Cl. I was able to follow it.
I first read this book as a college student and loved it, it's nice to be able to come back to it after a bit more than a decade.
A Fantastic Read
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Very technical but the performance is great!
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An audiobook only flawed by the unavoidable.
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highly entertaining, very informative
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hilarious and informative
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Explosions
More explosions
Engineering explosions
Sly smart humor
chemistry
Rockets
Making rocket scientists appear human
History
Some controlled Explosions
Aerospace
Just listen
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Verry interesting for the knowledgehungry engineer
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Great book on crazy hard subject
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Very technical.
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