To the End of the Solar System
Subtitle: The Story of the Nuclear Rocket
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: December 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780813122670
Subjects: Astronautics; Nuclear power & engineering; Space travel & exploration; Technology & Industrial Arts; Nuclear rockets; Nuclear Energy Utilization (Engineering Aspects); Rocket Propulsion; United States; Transportation; Science/Mathematics; USA; Outer space; Aeronautics & Astronautics; Exploration; Aviation - General; Nuclear Energy; History; Research
First sentence: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds," said Robert Oppenheimer in July 1945 following Trinity, the world's first nuclear weapon test, drawing his quote from the Bhagavad-Gita, an Indian religious book.