Reference Books

  • George P. Sutton, Oscar Biblarz: Rocket Propulsion Elements
  • John R. London: LEO on the Cheap
  • Gerald K. O'Neil: The High Frontier

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July 16, 2009

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jsuros

An interesting presentation. Thanks for posting the slides. Is there anything you would add or change now after ten years?

Oh, the references mention video of an ATR in action but there don't seem to be any stills in the presentation. Do you have any images?

John Bossard

Jsuros:
I thought I posted a response to this on Sunday, but apparently it didn't take. Sorry for the delay in responding.
Regarding anything to I would add or change, I believe that my prognostications have held up surprisingly well. I think if I were to add anything, it might have been more details on the types of trajectories you could fly.
I neglected to mention that I showed a short videotape during the presentation. It showed movies of a firing of Space America's LO2/RP1 engine, a firing of HARC's LO2/HTTP hybrid motor, and a firing of Army AMCOM's hydrazine monopropellant ATR. It also showed a movie of Glenn May starting, then driving his hybrid-rocket motor-powered canoe. Very cool.
I will try and make some of those ATR images available on the blog.

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I wanna go to college for aerospace engineering but know nothing about planes.....is that a problem?
Also im just a sophomore in high school.

John Bossard

Buy penegra,
If you know nothing about planes, that is indeed a problem. Fortunately it can be solved in a straightforward manner. Start reading books on planes, rockets, engines, turbojets, launch vehicles, etc. Anything you can on the subject. I strongly recommend that you read books, and not rely on the internet (too much wrong information, books are much better researched).
Also, its never too late (or too early) to start learning about planes.
If you hit it hard now and stay with it, you can be quite knowledgeable by the time you get to college. Good Luck!

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