It's a pity that the solid fuel chapter basically ends up with "no one is going to use solid fuels". I would die to read some anecdotes about how they became re

It's a pity that the solid fuel chapter basically ends up with "no one is going to use solid fuels". I would die to read some anecdotes about how they became reality, in the same style. Though that chapter did have the lovely recollection of experiments on enriching regular liquid rocket fuel with mercury, just because they could.