About the book
John D. Clark helped develop the liquid rocket fuels he writes about, and his history of the search for propellants that could be trusted to carry people into space is an eyewitness account. He knew and worked with dozens of peers in an effort that eventually took men to the moon, sent missiles to the planets and put satellites into orbit, and he describes a hazardous enterprise with no certainty of either success or safety. The tone is irreverent and comic, turning a dry technical subject into something any reader can enjoy, and Clark himself figures in the story as much as the occasional equation does. Isaac Asimov contributed an opening piece. It was published in 1972.
Elon Musk called it a good book on rockets and a really fun read.
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Elon Musk (Founder/SpaceX)
There is a good book on rocket stuff called Ignition! [An informal history of liquid rocket propellants] by John Clark, that’s a really fun one.
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