To the End of the Solar System
Subtitle: The Story of the Nuclear Rocket (Apogee Books Space Series)
Edition: Second edition edition
Publisher: Collector's Guide Publishing, Inc.
Published: January 1, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781894959681
Subjects: Nuclear Energy Utilization (Engineering Aspects); Rocket Propulsion; Technology; Science; Science/Mathematics; Astrophysics & Space Science; Science / Astrophysics & Space Science; Aeronautics & Astronautics; Aviation - General; Engineering - Nuclear
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.