Space Propulsion: Liquid Chemical Propulsion | STEM History and Concepts | Audiobook

Описание: An immersive, novelized aerospace engineering audiobook—written to be purely auditory—following the long arc of liquid rocket engines: from the first trembling field tests to turbopumps that swallow megawatts, from cryogenic miracles to hypergolic reliability, from catastrophic failures to the “almost-futures” that still haunt test stands.

In this episode, history and engineering concepts stay braided together, always anchored in real engines and real vehicles—so you learn liquid propulsion the way the world learned it: one breakthrough, one hard lesson, one fired engine at a time.

📜 Chapters:
0. The simplest rocket, and the hardest truths
1. A spark in a frozen field
2. The bargain between fuel and oxidizer
3. The machine that made large liquid rockets practical
4. How to feed a hungry chamber
5. Kerosene at the edge of the possible
6. The injector, the mixing, and the fight for stability
7. Liquid hydrogen and the road to the Moon
8. Staying alive in a furnace
9. Storables, hypergolics, and the age of ready-now rockets
10. The choreography of starting and restarting
11. The oxygen rich revolution
12. Turbopumps and the tyranny of tiny bubbles
13. Methane steps onto the main stage
14. Keeping liquids liquid beyond Earth
15. The propellants that fought back
16. Greener liquids for the small spacecraft age
17. When the liquid turns against you
18. The engines that almost were
19. Fire that tells stories

🌐Transcript, Aliases, and References:
https://drive.proton.me/urls/7Q2H8WG7...

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⚠️ Disclaimer:
You are about to enter a world where the most ordinary things, a tank of liquid, a valve that opens, a spark in the right place, can become extraordinary. Liquid chemical propulsion is one of the foundational technologies of spaceflight, but it is also a domain where small mistakes can have severe consequences. This audiobook is therefore written for historical and conceptual understanding only. It does not provide instructions for designing, building, testing, operating, or modifying rocket engines or propellant systems, and it intentionally avoids procedural detail that could enable unsafe real world experimentation.

The propellants and hardware discussed here can be dangerous in ways that are not obvious to a casual observer. Many real systems rely on cryogenic liquids that are extremely cold, and others rely on chemicals selected precisely because they ignite easily or store well, even though they impose serious handling hazards. The people and organizations that work with these materials do so with specialized facilities, training, safety culture, and regulation-driven procedures. When this audiobook mentions a historic test stand, a flight vehicle, or a particular propellant family, it is to illuminate why those choices mattered in context, not to invite replication.