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Rocket propulsion

Stephen D. Heister, Author ; William E. Anderson, Author ; Timothée Pourpoint, Author ; Joseph Cassady, Author | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | 2019

"This text is intended to provide undergraduate and first year graduate students with an introduction to the principles governing the design and performance of rocket propulsion systems. Readers of the text are expected to have a good working kn[...]

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Astronautics

Ulrich Walter, Author | Cham : Springer | 2018

This introductory text covers all the key concepts, relationships, and ideas behind spaceflight and is the perfect companion for students pursuing courses on or related to astronautics. As a crew member of the STS-55 Space Shuttle mission and[...]

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Make: high-power rockets

Mike Westerfield, Author | San Fransisco : Maker Media | 2018

Make: High-Power Rockets is for all the science geeks who look at the moon and try to figure out where Neil Armstrong walked, watch in awe as rockets lift off, and want to fly their own model rockets. Starting with an overview of mid- and high-p[...]

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The proton launcher : history and developments /

Christian Lardier, Author ; Stefan Barensky, Author | London : Wiley-ISTE | Space science and technology series | 2018

The Proton launcher, which has completed over 410 launches since 1965, was the European launch system Ariane's biggest competitor on the commercial market. It was developed by Vladimir Tchelomei, who inherited the German missile V-1 in 1944, car[...]

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The proton launcher : history and developments /

Christian Lardier, Author ; Stefan Barensky, Author | London : Wiley-ISTE | Space science and technology series | 2018

The Proton launcher, which has completed over 410 launches since 1965, was the European launch system Ariane's biggest competitor on the commercial market. It was developed by Vladimir Tchelomei, who inherited the German missile V-1 in 1944, car[...]

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Introduction to rocket science and engineering

Travis S. Taylor, Author | Boca Raton, Florida ; London ; New York : CRC Press | 2017

'Introduction to Rocket Science and Engineering' presents the history and basics of rocket science, and examines design, experimentation, testing, and applications. Exploring how rockets work, the book covers the concepts of thrust, momentum, i[...]

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Introduction to rocket science and engineering

Travis S. Taylor, Author | Boca Raton, Florida ; London ; New York : CRC Press | 2017

'Introduction to Rocket Science and Engineering' presents the history and basics of rocket science, and examines design, experimentation, testing, and applications. Exploring how rockets work, the book covers the concepts of thrust, momentum, i[...]

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SpaceX : from the ground up

Chris Prophet, Author | [S.l.] : Independently published | 2017

SpaceX promise to revolutionise space exploration and provide everyone the means to travel to new worlds. This is their story, all they have accomplished so far as they inexorably open the high frontier. How they survived perilous straits to eme[...]

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Breaking the chains of gravity : the story of spaceflight before NASA /

Amy Shira Teitel, Author | London : Bloomsbury Publishing | 2016

NASA's history is a familiar story, culminating with the agency successfully landing men on the Moon in 1969. But NASA's prehistory is a rarely told tale, one that is largely absent from the popular space-age literature despite providing the co[...]

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The rocket into planetary space

Hermann Oberth, Author | [S.l.] : Walter de Gruyter | 2014

In a relatively short work of 1923, Hermann Oberth laid down the mathematical laws governing rocketry and spaceflight, and he offered practical design considerations based on those laws. This translation of his classic text sheds light on an ext[...]

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SpaceX : making commercial spaceflight a reality /

Erik Seedhouse, Author | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in space exploration | 2012

2012 - the year when the first ever privately-developed spacecraft visited the International Space Station. This is the story of how one company is transforming commercial space flight. It describes the extraordinary feats of engineering and hum[...]

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SpaceX : making commercial spaceflight a reality /

Erik Seedhouse, Author | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in space exploration | 2012

2012 - the year when the first ever privately-developed spacecraft visited the International Space Station. This is the story of how one company is transforming commercial space flight. It describes the extraordinary feats of engineering and hum[...]

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Introduction to rocket science and engineering

Travis S. Taylor, Author | Boca Raton, Florida ; London ; New York : CRC Press | 2009

Providing the knowledge needed by practicing rocket scientists and engineers, Introduction to Rocket Science and Engineering presents the history and basics of rocket theory, design, experimentation, testing, and applications. It covers an arra[...]

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Future spacecraft propulsion systems : enabling technologies for space exploration

Paul A. Czysz ; Claudio Bruno | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in astronautical engineering | 2005

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Future spacecraft propulsion systems : enabling technologies for space exploration

Paul A. Czysz ; Claudio Bruno | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in astronautical engineering | 2005

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Rocket and spacecraft propulsion : principles, practice and new developments

Martin J.L. Turner | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in astronautical engineering | 2005

Written from the perspective of the user rather than the theorist, it discusses the range of launch vehicles in use throughout the world, and includes the very latest details of some of the advanced propulsion systems being developed. The book c[...]

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Rockets

Robert H. Goddard | Reston, VA : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics | 2002

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Streamling space launch range safety

Committee on Space Launch Range Safety, Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board, | [S.l.] : National Academy Press | The compass series | 2000

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