Escape Velocity

How America built the machines that left the Earth. The physics, the metallurgy, and the engineering of the Saturn V, the Shuttle, and what comes next -- told as the story of one equation nobody could get around.

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The Argument That Decided Everything

The Machine Entire

The Taming of Hydrogen

The Largest Thing Ever Lit

Learning Not to Explode

The Weapon That Taught the Rocket

The Deaf Schoolteacher and the Cabbage Field

The Tyranny of the Logarithm

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