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Non-Rocket Space Launch and Flight
Elsevier Science 2010; US$ 300.00In recent years scientists have investigated a series of new methods for non-rocket space launch, which promise to revolutionize space launches and flight. Particularly in the current political climate new, cheaper, and more ?fuel efficient? methods are being investigated. Such new methods include the gas tube method, cable accelerators, tether launch... more...
Future Spacecraft Propulsion Systems
Springer 2006; US$ 219.00Putting spacecraft propulsion systems in perspective, this book presents the need to break free from the old established concepts of expendable rockets, using chemical propulsion, and to develop breeds of launch vehicle capable of both launching payloads into orbit at dramatically reduced cost, and for sustained operations in low-Earth orbit. more...
Sex and Rockets
Feral House 2005; US$ 16.95Rocket scientist Jack Parsons called black magician Aleister Crowley his mentor. more...
Thread Of The Silkworm
Basic Books 2008; US$ 18.95"The definitive biography of Tsien Hsue-Shen, the pioneer of the American space age who was mysteriously accused of being a communist, deported, and became?to America?s continuing chagrin?the father of" more...
Rocket Man
Hyperion 2003; US$ 9.95More famous in his day than Einstein or Edison, the troubled, solitary genius Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945) was the American father of rocketry and space flight, launching the world's first liquid-fuel rockets and the first powered vehicles to break the sound barrier. Supported by Charles Lindbergh and Harry Guggenheim, through fiery, often explosive,... more...
Future Spacecraft Propulsion Systems
Springer 2009; US$ 169.99Demonstrates the need to break free from the old established concepts of expendable rockets, using chemical propulsion, and to develop new breeds of launch vehicle capable of both launching payloads into orbit at a dramatically reduced cost and for sustained operations in low-Earth orbit. more...
Solid Rocket Propulsion Technology
Elsevier Science 1992; US$ 335.00This book, a translation of the French title Technologie des Propergols Solides , offers otherwise unavailable information on the subject of solid propellants and their use in rocket propulsion. The fundamentals of rocket propulsion are developed in chapter one and detailed descriptions of concepts are covered in the following chapters. Specific design... more...
To a Distant Day
University of Nebraska Press 2008; US$ 29.95Chris Gainor's irresistible narrative introduces us to pioneers such as Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Robert Goddard, and Hermann Oberth, who pointed the way to the cosmos and created the earliest wave of international enthusiasm for space exploration. It shows us German engineer Wernher von Braun creating the V-2, the first large rocket, which opened... more...
Fundamentals of Electric Propulsion
Wiley 2008; US$ 152.00Throughout most of the twentieth century, electric propulsion was considered the technology of the future. Now, the future has arrived. This important new book explains the fundamentals of electric propulsion for spacecraft and describes in detail the physics and characteristics of the two major electric thrusters in use today, ion and Hall thrusters.... more...
Nuclear Rocket Engine Reactor
Springer 2012; US$ 99.99This monograph recounts and details the development of a nuclear rocket engine reactor (NRER). In particular, it explains the working capacity of an active zone NRER under mechanical and thermal load, intensive neutron fluxes, and high-energy generation (up to 30 MBT/l) in a working medium (hydrogen) at temperatures up to 3100 K. The design principles... more...









