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These two reprints were first published for Rocketdyne employees in
1958.
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An Introduction to Rocket Missile Propulsion
125 pages, 8 Chapters, 5 Appendices, 70+ drawings and diagrams. In 1958 the Space Age was just getting started and most work at Rocketdyne concerning rocketry was top secret. The information contained in this book was meant for the Rocketdyne manager or factory boss or technician who was not a physist or chemist yet still needed to know how and why rocket motors worked. While most of the motors Rocketdyne developed were secret at the time the V-2 engine was well characterized and undersood, it's inner workings made a wonderful, relatively easily understood subject. Quite a bit of the information in this book was the result of a study by JPL commisioned by the US government to translate the German A4/V-2 engine into English units of measure. The bulk of the examples and diagrams concern the processes and hardware of this motor. See Index Page One and
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Two here
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Propulsion Field Laboratory
Mechanic's Handbook 175 pages, 10 sections, glossary, thousands of images, tables galore, the perfect companion for the amateur or experimentalist! Everything from soup to Hydrazine, this wonderful book has it all. The first time I opened and read it my heart started pounding due to the wealth of information it contained - it is a really fabulous resource and is current today as it was then since it deals with standards which have not really changed much over the past 40 years. Written by Rocketdyne for the mechs and techs who ran the Propulsion Field Laboratory, the Mechanic's Handbook was prepared to provide a central source of fundamental information compiled from numerous official Rocketdyne sources. This was the book that ended up being the dog-eared, much thumbed bible of the hard hatted lunch box carrying Joe who made the LOX plant, Area III, Test Stands Delta, Bravo, and Coca, and the Hot Fuels Compound tick. Take a look at some of the contents of this terrific resource:
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