Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants - John Drury Clark Audiobook

Written by John Drury Clark
Read by Jonathan Todd Ross
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps

Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
By: John Drury Clark, Isaac Asimov - foreward
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
Release date: 05-15-18
Unabridged Audiobook
Language: English
Publisher: Random House Audio

Publisher’s summary

Ignition! is the inside story of the Cold War era search for a rocket propellant that could be trusted to take man into space. A favorite of Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, listeners will want to tune into this “really good book on rocket[s],” available for the first time in audio.

Ignition! 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 guarantee of success or safety.

Acclaimed scientist and sci-fi author John Drury Clark writes with irreverent and eyewitness immediacy about the development of the explosive fuels strong enough to negate the relentless restraints of gravity. The resulting volume is as much a memoir as a work of history, sharing a behind-the-scenes view of an enterprise that eventually took men to the moon, missiles to the planets, and satellites to outer space. A classic work in the history of science, listeners will want to get their hands on this influential classic, available for the first time in decades.

©2018 John Drury Clark (P)2018 Random House Audio