Return to Spaceflight

I've searched high and low for a cheap book or good pamphlet that will provide a condensed version of the physics of spaceflight, and a bit of the history of humanity's quest for space. Those books are no longer in print, so I'll try to write my own.

Rocket science for Earthlings, Mechanics

Rocket science for Earthlings, Into Space

Rocket science for Earthlings, Inside the engine

Rocket science for Earthlings, Finding your way to orbit

Unobtainum

Rocket science for Earthlings, Orbits, or going round and round

Rocket science for Earthlings, Reentry, or getting back down

Rocket science for Earthlings, Reentry heating, or how not to fry your tail

Rocket science for Earthlings, Stages, more or less

Rocket science for Earthlings, Propellants, solids

Rocket science for Earthlings, Liquids

Rocket science for Earthlings, Misc.

THE POINTS OF LAGRANGE

Living in Space.

Stage Ratios, MCD.

AI.

Solar Sailing.

Mass Drivers.

Steel vs. Aluminum?, an MCD question.

Stage Early & Often, MCD

The economics of spaceflight MCD

Fuels, an MCD analysis

The proper payload for a RLV, MCD

How to build a tank

Drag loss vs, gravity loss MCD

Safety and advice

Engines and MCD

Oh Gee, reducing Gee loads MCD

Ooooh Geeee!!, high gee loads are better? MCD

Vaporous Substances

The legacy of John Von Neummann

Launch Vehicle Cost and MCD

Dual Mode, MCD

Performance Mathematics and MCD

CAN'T STAND THE PRESSURE an MCD analysis

A SIMPLE PRESSURE SYSTEM, MCD

THINGS FALLING FROM HIGH PLACES

CONSTANT VS. DECAYING THRUST an MCD analysis

TURBO PUMPED VS. PRESSURE FED an MCD analysis

WHY MULTIPLE ENGINES CANT

THROAT EROSION

POP FLY ORBIT

THRUST AUGMENTATION

THE PRICE OF BRICKS THESE DAYS

THE LIMITS OF DELTA VEE

WHO SAYS GAS IS BAD

THE SENSE OF GRAVITY

SPIN, SPIN, SPIN

GO FIGURE - GROWTH FACTOR

GO HIGH MAN!

THE HIGH COST OF STAGING

NANOtech thoughts

asteroid towing

Sol Cazador

Reality Check, the math.

THE PECULIAR ECONOMICS OF SPACE LAUNCH VEHICLES.