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For anyone interested in the development of rocket propellant and related fuel I’d highly recommend ‘Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
by knolan 5y ago
For anyone interested in the development of rocket propellant and related fuel I’d highly recommend ‘Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants’ by John D. Clark.
- nyankosensei 5y agoI also recommend ‘The Green Flame’ by Andrew Dequasie. It’s the fascinating personal story of a chemist embarking on a new career and ending up working with borane fuels.
- tim333 5y agoStart of the chapter on it: >Fifteen years ago people used to ask me "What is an exotic fuel any- way?" and I would answer "It's expensive, it's got boron in it, and it probably doesn't work." I had intended, originally, to entitle this chap- ter "The Billion Buck Boron Booboo," but decided against it on two grounds. The first was that such a title might conceivably be consid- ered tactless by some of the people who authorized the programs con- cerned. The second reason is that it would not be completely accurate. Actually, the boron programs did not cost a billion dollars. It just seemed that way at the time.