Rocket Science

  • Rocket Science
    By Jay Lake

    Presents a collection of short fiction set in Texas about ghosts, angels, gods, and aliens.

  • Rocket Science: A Beginner's Guide to the Fundamentals of Spaceflight
    By Andrew Rader

    In a guide ideal for aspiring rocket engineers, planetary scientists, and others who love learning about space exploration, Galen Frazer's distinctive yet accessible illustrations pair perfectly with Andrew Rader's straightforward text, ...

  • Rocket Science: Rocket Science in the Second Millennium
    By Steve Whitfield, Alfred J. Zaehringer

    A well written, comprehensive future of rockets, missiles and space propulsion systems, presented in an interesting fashion that accomodates (rather than intimidates) the non-scientist.

  • Rocket Science: From Fireworks to the Photon Drive
    By Mark Denny, Alan McFadzean

    Also at www.popularmechanics.com/space/ rockets/a25173254/russia-might-actually-build-a-nuclear-powered-rocket/. ... Ward, J.H. Rocket Ranch—The Nuts and Bolts of the Apollo Moon Program at the Kennedy Space Center.

  • Rocket Science
    By Steve Whitfield, Alfred J. Zaehringer, Alfred Zaehringer

    The story of rocket science told from the perspective of one of the most important scientists in the field, this book begins with a short history of the birth of rocketry and explains the physics behind using rockets to fly in space.

  • Rocket Science
    By Andrew Rader

    How do rockets work? Why do they use staging? What's an orbit? Is there gravity in space? How did we get to the Moon? How would we get to Mars? Could we get to another star? These are just a few of the questions discussed in Rocket Science.