Make: Rockets: Down-to-Earth Rocket Science

Westerfield Mike

ISBN 10: 1457182920 / ISBN 13: 9781457182921

Published by O'Reilly Media, Incorporated, 2014

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pp. 512.

Seller Inventory # 126430945

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Make: Rockets: Down-to-Earth Rocket Science
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1457182920
• ISBN 13: 9781457182921
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book teaches the reader to build rockets--powered by compressed air, water, and solid propellant--with the maximum possible fun, safety, and educational experience.

Make: Rockets is for all the science geeks who look at the moon and try to figure out where Neil Armstrong walked, watch in awe as rockets lift off, and want to fly their own model rockets. Starting with the basics of rocket propulsion, readers will start out making rockets made from stuff lying around the house, and then move on up to air-, water-, and solid propellant-powered rockets. Most of the rockets in the book can be built from parts in the Estes Designer Special kit.

About the Author

Mike sold his car and rode a bike for several months to raise cash to buy an Apple II computer, then used it to write ORCA/M, which went on to become Apple Programmer's Workshop, the Apple-labeled development environment for the Apple IIGS. Since then Mike has developed numerous compilers and interpreters, software for mission-critical physics packages for military satellites, plasma physics simulations for Z-pinch experiments, multimedia authoring tools for grade schoolers, disease surveillance programs credited with saving lives of hurricane Katrina refugees, advanced military simulations that protect our nation's most critical assets, and technical computing software for iOS. Mike currently runs the Byte Works, an independent software publishing and consulting firm.