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Rocket Boys (The Coalwood Series #1)
from Delacorte Press
Price: $18.98

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escape via rocket, October 6, 2008
By V. N. Dvornychenko (Rockville, MD) - See all my reviews
Part "Angela's Ashes" (Frank McCourt) and part "I Aim for the Stars" (Werner von Braun), this book chronicles the efforts of a teenage boy to escape the confines of his West Virginia coal-mining... more info

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Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War (Vintage)
from Vintage
Price: $12.89

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This book is not only an outstanding objective analysis of the life of Wernher von Braun, but also an excellent history of German and U.S. rocket development. As an author of two non-fiction books myself, I can attest to the enormous amount of work that goes into research for a book of this type.... more info

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Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons
from Feral House
Price: $11.53

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An absolutely fascinating story about the world of Jack Parsons, both his rocket expertise and his journey into the occult. Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard puts in a brief appearance as a shadowy occultist and con man. The book suffers, unfortunately, from being poorly written and presented. The... more info

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Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons
from Harcourt
Price: $19.00

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The history of rocketry is filled with colorful characters, and in that pantheon Jack Parsons may be the most unusual of the lot. A brilliant self-taught chemist, in the 1930s Parsons joined with Caltech graduate students Frank Malina, Martin Summerfield, Apollo Smith, H.S. Tsien, and others to form... more info

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Rocket Propulsion Elements, 7th Edition
from Wiley-Interscience
Price: $103.45

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I'm only sixteen years old, and still only in algebra 2, but I bought this book because I am extremely fascinated with rocketry and I want to learn more about it. This will be a text that will be with me throughout my college years and beyond, and I feel that it was a great investment. The math and... more info

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Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Propulsion (2nd Edition)
from Prentice Hall
Price: $133.36

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This is just the best book for propulsion. But maybe not for beginners. And may be not for those who just want to score marks in exams by practicing large no. of problems but not caring for real & physical understanding of jet engines.

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To the End of the Solar System: The Story of the Nuclear Rocket (Apogee Books Space Series)
from Collector's Guide Publishing, Inc.
Price: $17.79

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Six million horsepower from a reactor the size of a 55 gallon drum. This was the promise of the ultimate in all-American 60's muscle - the nuclear thermal rocket engine. With it, you could send jumbo jet sized payloads to the Moon, or send a crew to Mars in 3 months.
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Modern Engineering for Design of Liquid-Propellant Rocket Engines (Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics)
from AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Ast
Price: $99.96

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i have most of the books on rocket engines that are sold today.
i must say that this is the best book about DESIGN of LIQUID ROCKET ENGINES: if you want to design a LRE, this book gives to you a chance. it's QUITE easy to read, taking in consideration that the topic is very complicate.... more info

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Go For Launch!: An Illustrated History of Cape Canaveral (Apogee Books Space Series)
from Collector's Guide Publishing Inc
Price: $26.95

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The history of space activities at Cape Canaveral, Florida, America's spaceport, is as interesting as it is varied. "Go for Launch!" seeks to tell this story--already available in both scholarly and popular as well as in illustrated and textual forms--with an emphasis on photographs. At a... more info

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Atlas: The Ultimate Weapon by Those Who Built It (Apogee Books Space Series)
from Collector's Guide Publishing, Inc.
Price: $26.95

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Chuck Walker tells the story of the development of the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) from an insider's perspective. This book captures the importance of the Atlas rocket as both a ballistic missile and a space launch vehicle. It is one of three major launch systems developed by the... more info

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