Ignition! - An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants

John D. Clark; Isaac Asimov (Foreword by)

This newly reissued debut book in the Rutgers University Press Classics Imprint 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 guarante...