I still have my copy from circa 2005. It always goes to the range."Handbook of Model Rocketry", seventh edition by G. Harry Stine and Bill Stine...
Read it about a week ago .I recommend Project Hail Mary by the same author. IMO it was better than The Martian.
That looks like an interesting series - I've added it to my goodreads "Want To Read" list, 328 long and growing!"Wings of Fire" (book #9 of the Patrick McLanahan series) from Dale Brown.
Have you read Harrison Bergeron, by Kurt Vonnegut?Just finishing Atlas Shrugged.
Read it in my childhood. Everyone on TRF should give it a go if they haven’t already.I just finished Rocket Boys by Homer Hickman.
A great read, well written, and a coming-of-age tale that touches much more than just building amazing rockets. The movie, October Sky is a good job of condensing a much richer story. There is even a future President in the story,
The true story of a group of boys who made their way out following generations of the men behind them into coal mines in West Virginia, where life and limb were always in great danger, and if they lives long, the black lung would get them. In a town where football was the only way to get out, they discovered rocketry after watching Sputnik coast across the sky in October. Hence the movie title is mostly based on the book. As part of a feature on the Blue Ray movie, you can meet the author and his friends, who all went to college, 2 through the Air Force and GI Bill, 3 of the 5 became engineers, and Homer became a NASA engineer, working with astronauts both on the ground and while the astronauts were in space.
It is a great story about what we can do when we follow our hearts with imagination and drive to overcome failures that we learn from to make our dreams come true. Of course, they had help from a teacher and a few parents, and then the whole damned town after the rockets started soaring to 1000's feet and they ended up in a newspaper.
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