(Part 2) Top products from r/spaceflight
We found 8 product mentions on r/spaceflight. We ranked the 28 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
22. Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
Show Reddit reviews23. Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965 (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
Show Reddit reviews24. Risk and Culture: An Essay on the Selection of Technological and Environmental Dangers
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
University of California Press
Show Reddit reviews25. Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
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Show Reddit reviews26. The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
St Martin s Griffin
Show Reddit reviews27. Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Propulsion (2nd Edition)
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
In this textbook, the authors show that a few fundamental principles can provide an understanding of all modes of aircraft and spacecraft propulsion. The book also demonstrates how these fundamental principles can lead directly to useful quantitative assessments of performance as well as possibiliti...
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Red Moon Rising by Brzezinski is an engaging, novel-like quick read that dramatizes and summarizes the early space race. Side-by-side history of early US and Soviet space rocketry. Great stuff on the inheritance of the V-2 tech after WWII.
https://www.amazon.com/Red-Moon-Rising-Sputnik-Rivalries/dp/080508858X
Korolev by James Harford is about the man without whom the space race wouldn’t have happened. A bit dry (academic) at times, but a well researched book with lots of cool details from first-hand interviews. Korolev was a fascinating guy. An under-appreciated giant of the 20th century.
https://www.amazon.com/Korolev-Masterminded-Soviet-Drive-America/dp/0471327212
Starman by Pierce and Bizony on the meteoric rise and end of Yuri Gagarin. Very engaging. Read for the story of Komarov!
https://www.amazon.com/Starman-Truth-Behind-Legend-Gagarin-ebook/dp/B0052LUE80
Into That Silent Sea/In the Shadow of the Moon by French and Burgess. Another side-by-side. Great history from pre-Sputnik to Apollo, the moon, beyond. Lots of good stuff about individuals on both sides.
https://www.amazon.com/Into-That-Silent-Sea-Trailblazers/dp/080322639X/
Russian Wikipedia. Seriously, run it through Google’s page translate feature, keep a tab open for google translate so you can copy-paste search terms in Russian. Lots of extra info on RU Wikipedia vs EN Wikipedia.
Kamanin’s Diaries. Kamanin was a Red Army General that got assigned as personnel handler for the Cosmonauts. His diaries of the early days are probably the best primary source for and industry forged in a time of uber-secrecy. I haven’t found a full English translation.
English Summaries:
http://www.astronautix.com/k/kamanindiaries.html
Russian Language:
http://militera.lib.ru/db/kamanin_np/index.html
A good piece of reading would be the Challenger Launch Decision by Vaughan. She paints a really good picture that all other O-ring faults were attributed to improperly installed O-rings, like there was debris, hair, etc. so the correlation was made incorrectly with regards to temperature. The mechanism for safety reporting and analysis was right, just got the wrong answer.
Another good reading that talks about it is Risk and Culture by Douglas. http://www.amazon.com/Risk-Culture-Selection-Technological-Environmental/dp/0520050630
Sputnik and the Soviet Space Challenge, and The Soviet Space Race with Apollo by Asif A. Siddiqi
Two excellent, if exhaustively detailed books on the Soviet space program.
I also liked At the Edge of Space: The X-15 Flight Program by Milton O. Thompson.
> Orbital Mechanics for Engineering Students by Howard Curtis
that book is dense!! 700 pages, 600 is advance math and formulas. but it does explain everything
My guess is Mechanics & Thermodynamics of Propulsion 2e, by Hill & Peterson. This textbook was used to teach my undergrad Jet & Rocket Prop course.
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The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space