The Complete Book of Spaceflight: From Apollo 1 to Zero Gravity
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Rocket science and technology<br />

afterburning<br />

augmen<strong>to</strong>r<br />

average thrust<br />

bleed-cycle operation<br />

blowdown<br />

blow<strong>of</strong>f<br />

boat-tail<br />

boil<strong>of</strong>f<br />

bootstrap<br />

burn<br />

burn rate<br />

burn time<br />

burnout<br />

burnout plug<br />

burnout velocity<br />

burnout weight<br />

canted nozzle<br />

chamber pressure<br />

characteristic length<br />

characteristic velocity<br />

chemical rocket<br />

chuffing<br />

combustion<br />

combustion chamber<br />

combustion efficiency<br />

combustion, incomplete<br />

combustion instability<br />

combustion limit<br />

combustion oscillation<br />

De Laval nozzle<br />

dry weight<br />

effective exhaust velocity<br />

environmental engine<br />

exhaust nozzle<br />

exhaust stream<br />

exhaust velocity<br />

expansion ratio<br />

F-1<br />

Fastrac Engine<br />

firing chamber. See combustion chamber<br />

flashback<br />

gas genera<strong>to</strong>r<br />

gaseous propellant rocket engine<br />

H-1 (American rocket engine)<br />

high mass fraction<br />

hybrid mo<strong>to</strong>r<br />

hydrid propellant rocket engine<br />

ideal rocket<br />

ignition<br />

ignition lag<br />

impulse, <strong>to</strong>tal<br />

impulse-weight ratio<br />

injec<strong>to</strong>r<br />

J-2 (American rocket engine)<br />

leveled thrust<br />

limit load<br />

limit pressure<br />

liquid-air cycle engine<br />

liquid-fueled rocket<br />

liquid-propellant rocket engine<br />

load fac<strong>to</strong>r<br />

mass ratio<br />

Max Q<br />

mo<strong>to</strong>r<br />

mo<strong>to</strong>r chamber<br />

multistage ignition<br />

multistage rocket<br />

nozzle<br />

nozzle area ratio<br />

nozzle efficiency<br />

nozzle exit angle<br />

oxygen-hydrocarbon engine<br />

parallel operation <strong>of</strong> engines<br />

payload ratio<br />

pogo effect<br />

pressure feed system<br />

pressure limit<br />

prevalve<br />

progressive burning<br />

propellant-mass ratio<br />

purge<br />

reaction engine<br />

reaction mass<br />

reaction nozzle<br />

regenerative cooling<br />

regressive burning<br />

remaining mass<br />

rocket<br />

rocket equation<br />

rocket principle<br />

rocket propulsion<br />

rumble<br />

screaming<br />

sloshing<br />

solid-fueled rockets<br />

solid-propellant rocket mo<strong>to</strong>r<br />

staging<br />

stay time<br />

step principle<br />

step rocket<br />

take<strong>of</strong>f mass<br />

thermal load<br />

throat<br />

throatable<br />

thrust<br />

thrust chamber<br />

thrust decay<br />

thrust equalizer<br />

thrust genera<strong>to</strong>r<br />

thrust misalignment<br />

thrust-<strong>to</strong>-Earth-weight ratio<br />

<strong>to</strong>tal impulse<br />

turbopump<br />

ullage<br />

unrestricted burn<br />

weight flow rate<br />

working pressure<br />

Rocket types<br />

aft-firing thrusters<br />

apogee kick mo<strong>to</strong>r<br />

Category Index 533<br />

attitude jets<br />

booster<br />

braking rocket<br />

cluster<br />

cold gas attitude control system. See<br />

gaseous-propellant rocket engine<br />

dawn rocket<br />

perigee kick mo<strong>to</strong>r<br />

posigrade rocket<br />

retro-rocket<br />

separation rocket<br />

sustainer engine<br />

thruster<br />

ullage rocket<br />

vernier engine<br />

Science fiction and spaceflight<br />

Around the Moon. See <strong>From</strong> the Earth <strong>to</strong> the<br />

Moon<br />

Atterley, Joseph<br />

Bonestell, Chesley (1888–1987)<br />

Caidin, Martin (1926–1997)<br />

Cavendish, Margaret (1623–1673)<br />

Clarke, Arthur C. (1917–)<br />

Collier’s Space Program<br />

Columbiad<br />

Conquest <strong>of</strong> Space<br />

Cromie, Robert (1856–1907)<br />

Cyrano de Bergerac, Savinien de<br />

(1619–1655)<br />

Defoe, Daniel (1660–1731)<br />

Destination Moon<br />

Disney, Walt (1901–1966)<br />

Eyraud, Achille (19th century)<br />

<strong>From</strong> the Earth <strong>to</strong> the Moon<br />

Godwin, Francis (1562–1633)<br />

Greg, Percy (1836–1889)<br />

Griffith, George (1857–1906)<br />

Hale, Edward Everett (1822–1909)<br />

Ley, Willy (1906–1969)<br />

Lucian <strong>of</strong> Samosata (c. A.D. 120–180)<br />

McDermot, Murtagh (eighteenth century)<br />

Poe, Edgar Allan (1809–1849)<br />

Serviss, Garrett (Putnam) (1851–1929)<br />

Tucker, George (1775–1861)<br />

Verne, Jules (1828–1905)<br />

Wilkins, John (1614–1672)<br />

Woman in the Moon<br />

Societies<br />

American Astronautical Society (AAS)<br />

American Institute <strong>of</strong> Aeronautics and<br />

Astronautics (AIAA)<br />

American Rocket Society. See American<br />

Institute <strong>of</strong> Aeronautics and<br />

Astronautics<br />

Australian Space Research Institute<br />

British Interplanetary Society (BIS)<br />

Canadian Space Society (CSS)<br />

Experimental Rocket Propulsion Society<br />

(ERPS)

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