 | The Feynman Lectures on Physics including Feynman's Tips on Physics: The Definitive and Extended Edition by Richard P. Feynman
Buy new: $122.85 / Used from: $167.63 PHYSICS: We are going to need a physics primer. This is a great series. Join sciences' collective crush on Richard Feynman. You will need some math too, college level calculus to start. Find any college calc book.
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 | Dr. Space: The Life of Wernher von Braun by Bob Ward
Buy new: $21.86 / Used from: $8.59 HISTORY: Start with some history. The key players: Wernher Von Braun, Robert Goddard, Hermann Oberth and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.
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 | Fluid Mechanics with Student CD (McGraw-Hill Series in Mechanical Engineering) by Frank White
Buy new: $135.53 / Used from: $94.77 PHYSICS & ENGINEERING: A chemical rocket works on the principles reactionary forces and the acceleration of a fluid through a nozzle.
You will need an understanding of fluid mechanics in order to understand a rocket.
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 | Introduction to Space Dynamics by William Tyrrell Thomson
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $3.80 PHYSICS & ENGINEERING: You will need some dynamics education too. This is a great book and dover cheap.
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 | Selected Works Of Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky by Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $32.35 HISTORY: Get your Tsiolkovsky fix. A dreamer from the 1850's he is the father of astronautics.
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 | Rocket Man: Robert H. Goddard and the Birth of the Space Age by David A. Clary
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $1.15 HISTORY: American Rocket Scientist, pre-WW1. First to fly a liquid propellant rocket.
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 | Rocket Propulsion Elements, 7th Edition by George P. Sutton
Buy new: $107.55 / Used from: $93.95 ROCKET PROPULSION: Start with this book. The math is not too involved. A basic knowledge of algebra and calculus will get you a long way.
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 | Rocket Boys (The Coalwood Series #1) by Homer Hickam
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Need some inspiration, read the book that October Sky is based on.
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 | October Sky (Special Edition)
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $4.06 Or just watch the movie.
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 | From the Earth to the Moon - The Signature Edition
Buy new: $14.49 / Used from: $7.95 More movies: This is fantastic series on the Apollo missions. If this doesn't make you want to be a rocket scientist, then give up.
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 | Elements of Gas Dynamics by H. W. Liepmann
Buy new: $19.11 / Used from: $15.00 PHYSICS: Back to the studying. Thermodynamics!
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 | Modern Compressible Flow: With Historical Perspective by John D. Anderson
Buy new: $78.46 / Used from: $78.40 PHYSICS: Want to understand nozzles and supersonic flight? This is the best compressible flow book.
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 | Advanced Engineering Mathematics by Clarence Raymond Wylie
Buy new: $187.25 / Used from: $27.54 MATH: At some point you are going to need some more advanced mathematics. This is a great reference.
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 | Liquid Rocket Engine Combustion Instability (Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics) by V. Yang
Buy new: $104.95 / Used from: $157.32 Once you get past all the basics and understand them you can more on to the advanced topics. This is an example. Get used to the AIAA (American institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) and other professional societies. Read the technical documents. Old NASA and NACA papers are gold mines.
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