History of Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines Review

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(More customer reviews)this book is nothing less than great, it's packed with useful informations, lot of diagrams, pictures. everything you can ask about LRE history is here; definitively another great AIAA book.
i know one of the the first things one would like to know about a "history.." book, is the level of details reported.
this is a very detailed book. i was impressed by the fact that some informations reported here are not so easy to find, like the regenerative channel drilling pattern of the agena rocket engine..
i think you know how rocket engineering textbooks are: they give you some formulas, some ideas; they tell about rocket engines as they were ideal metaphysical objects; where are the pipes? where the bolts? you can't find in them a single detail on the implementation of a real rocket engine, a real existing working object. maybe the book fills the gap: this is not the usual "i'll tell you something about rockets but just to fill 300 pages and collect some money" book, but remembers the efforts of something like "modern engineering.." of huzel / huang, that is to say a book written to be complete (if possible; sure the author tried hard: it's a 911 pages book..) very interesting, useful, and a pleasure to read.
my final impression is that this book has something of the work of art.
absolutely a must for rocket engineers, rocket scientists, rocketry amateurs.
excellent work, Mr. Sutton!

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To this date liquid propellant rocket engines have propelled all the manned space flights, all the space vehicles flying to the planets or deep space, virtually all satellites, and the majority of medium range or intercontinental range ballistic missiles. Furthermore forces or turning moments provided by liquid propellant rocket engines have almost universally controlled the flight path direction and flight maneuvers of essentially all space vehicles. They have been an important essential enabling ingredient for space flight. This new book, written by one of the foremost experts in rocket propulsion, gives an account of the liquid propellant rocket engine field over the last fourscore and more years. It is the story about the technological advances that allowed progressive improvements in design, analysis, thrust magnitude, reliability, cost, and performance; where and when those advances were made, including unique engines from the countries most important to this technology; the groups, companies, or organizations of engineers, specialists, and dedicated people who made it happen; and the different kinds of flight vehicles that have been propelled by liquid propellant rocket engines. You will learn about the early pioneers, amateur rocket societies, evolution of key hardware components, past investigations of different liquid propellants, reorganizations and mergers of key companies, and the principal areas of current and former applications. Both large pump-fed rocket engine and low thrust gas-pressure-fed rocket engines with multiple thrusters are included. In addition to the United States, histories of rocket engines in Russia, Ukraine, Germany, France, Japan, United Kingdom, People's Republic of China, and India are discussed. this includes some unusual or novel engine features.

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