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• Rocket engines -- Cooling
• Rocket engines -- Design
• Rocket engines -- Design and construction
• Rocket engines -- Energy consumption
• Rocket engines -- Exhaust emissions
• Rocket engines -- Fuel systems
• Rocket engines -- Ignition
• Rocket engines -- Lubrication
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• Rocket engines -- Materials
• Rocket engines -- Models
• Rocket engines -- Noise
• Rocket engines -- Propulsion systems
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• Rocket engines -- Reliability
• Rocket engines -- Stability
• Rocket engines -- Statistics
• Rocket engines -- Testing
• Rocket engines -- Thrust
• Rocket engines -- Vibration
• Rocket engines -- Welding
• Airplanes -- Rocket engines
• Electric rocket engines
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• SOLID PROPELLANT ROCKET ENGINES
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• Space shuttles -- Rocket engines
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• Rocket motors
• Rockets (Aeronautics) -- Motors

• How to Design, Build and Test Small Liquid-Fuel Rocket Engines, by Leroy J. Krzycki (illustrated HTML at gramlich.net)
• Base heating investigations on a 1/10 scale model Centaur stage using short-duration high altitude testing techniques. Contract no. NAS 3-3227. (Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, Inc., 1963), by C. L. Matthis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Advanced earth-to-orbit propulsion technology 1994 : proceedings of a conference held at NASA George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Marshall Space Flight Center, May 17-19, 1994 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Marshall Space Flight Center, 1994), by Ala) Advanced Earth-to-Orbit Propulsion Technology (6th : 1994 : Huntsville, S. T. Wu, R. J. Richmond, and George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evaluation of a thin-film, heat-flux probe for measuring gas velocities in an unstable rocket combustor (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1967), by Frederick P. Povinelli, Robert D. Ingebo, and Lewis Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Experimental study of multi-component coaxial-flow jets in short chambers (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1968), by Bruce V. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Theoretical investigation of the absorptive properties of small particles and heavy-atom gases (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1967), by N. L. Krascella, United Aircraft Corporation, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Investigation of the absorption and scattering of small particles. (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1965), by N. L. Krascella, United Aircraft Corporation, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Development of launch vehicle malfunction effects model (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1965), by inc Sperry Gyroscope Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Noise reduction shape factors in the low-frequency range (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1968), by J. Ronald Bailey and Franklin D. Hart (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nondestructive testing of Scout rocket motors (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1972), by Arthur E. Oaks, Langley Research Center, and General Electric Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• NASA TN D-2391 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration :, 1964), by James F. Maher, Vincent N. Capasso, C. Wayne Ottinger, Flight Research Center (U.S.), and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Analysis of the transient radiation heat transfer of an uncooled rocket engine operating outside Earth's atmosphere (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1959), by William H. Robbins and Lewis Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wing-on and wing-off longitudinal characteristics of an airplane configuration having a thin unswept wing of aspect ratio 3, as obtained from rocket-propelled models at Mach numbers from 0.8 to 1.4 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1959), by Clarence L. Gillis, A. James Vitale, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• NASA TN D-5291 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; [For sale by the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, Springfield, Virginia 22151], 1969), by Ronald G. Huff, Lewis Research Center, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modulated entry (National Aeronautics and Space Administration :, 1960), by Frederick C. Grant and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• NASA TN D-6033 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration :, 1970), by Leo C. Franciscus, Lewis Research Center, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• NASA TN D-5855 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1970), by Royce D. Moore, Phillip R. Meng, Lewis Research Center, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Upper-stage space-shuttle propulsion by means of separate scramjet and rocket engines (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1972), by Leo C. Franciscus, John L. Allen, and Lewis Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• NASA TN D-5347 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1969), by David J. Robinson, Richard R. Wyer, John T. Mayer, Lewis Research Center, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Torque and leakage rates of various lubricated lip seal designs at a peripheral velocity of 120 feet per second (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1969), by Lawrence P. Ludwig, Robert L. Johnson, Thomas N. Strom, United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and Lewis Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Application of various techniques for determining local heat-transfer coefficients in a rocket engine from transient experimental data (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1960), by Curt H. Liebert, Ronald W. Grant, James E. Hatch, and Lewis Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Experimental investigation in an altitude test facility of burning of excess combustibles in a rocket engine exhaust (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1960), by Harry E. Bloomer, Robert J. Antl, Paul E. Renas, and Lewis Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Analysis of one-dimensional ion rocket with grid neutralization (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1960), by Harold Mirels, Burt M. Rosenbaum, and Lewis Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• NASA TN D-4673 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1968), by Carl R. Johnson, John D. Grimsley, Goddard Space Flight Center, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Performance of 2 subliming-solid-propellant thrustor systems for attitude control of spacecraft (National Aeronautics and Space Administration :, 1967), by Frank D. Berkopec, Lewis Research Center, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A high-performance 250-pound-thrust rocket engine utilizing coaxial-flow injection of JP-4 fuel and liquid oxygen (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1959), by Samuel Stein and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Control of combustion-chamber pressure and oxidant-fuel ratio for a regeneratively cooled hydrogen-fluorine rocket engine (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1959), by Edward W. Otto, Richard A. Flage, and Lewis Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Analytical comparison of hydrazine with primary propellants as the turbine drive fluid for hydrogen-fluorine and hydrogen-oxygen altitude stage rockets (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1959), by William T. Wintucky and Lewis Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• NASA TN D-1726 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1963), by R. James Rollbuhler, Lewis Research Center, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• NASA TN D-1743 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1963), by Anthony Fortini, Robert C. Ehlers, Lewis Research Center, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vaporization rates of ethanol sprays in a combustor with low-frequency fluctuations of combustion-gas pressure / Robert D. Ingebo. (National Aeronautics and Space Administration :, 1962), by Robert D. Ingebo and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Experimental performance of an ion rocket engine using a rectangular-slab porous-tungsten emitter (National Aeronautics and Space Administration :, 1962), by Ronald J. Cybulski, David L. Lockwood, Joseph T. Kotnik, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Investigation of a 4.0-inch-mean-diameter four-stage reentry turbine for auxiliary power drives (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1960), by Robert Y. Wong, Monroe Daniel E., David L. Darmstadt, Langley Research Center, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• NASA TN D-7029 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; [For sale for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, Springfield, Virginia 22151], 1971), by Kenneth W. Stark, Goddard Space Flight Center, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• National altitude rocket test facilities (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1964), by J. A. Suddreth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theoretical performance of liquid ammonia, hydrazine and mixture of liquid ammonia and hydrazine as fuels with liquid oxygen bifluoride as oxidant for rocket engines [Part] 3, Liquid ammonia (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1952), by Vearl N. Huff, Sanford Gordon, United States National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Starting of rocket engine at conditions of simulated altitude using crude monoethylaniline and other fuels with mixed acid (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1950), by Gerald Morrell, Jack C. Humphrey, John L. Sloop, Dezso J. Ladanyi, United States National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theoretical performance of liquid ammonia, hydrazine and mixture of liquid ammonia and hydrazine as fuels with liquid oxygen bifluoride as oxidant for rocket engines [Part] 2, Hydrazine (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1952), by Vearl N. Huff, Sanford Gordon, United States National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theoretical performance of diborane as a rocket fuel (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1949), by Vearl N. Huff, Virginia C. Erdmann, Clyde S. Calvert, United States National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and OH) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory (Cleveland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Effects on adjacent surfaces from the firing of rocket jets (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1957), by Walter E. Bressette, Abraham Leiss, Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, United States. National Adviosry Committee for Aeronautics, and United States National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Design and evaluation of a turbojet-exhaust simulator with a solid-propellant rocket motor for free-flight research (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1957), by Abraham Leiss, Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, and United States. National Adviosry Committee for Aeronautics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Analytical and experimental studies of spherical solid-propellant rocket motors (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1957), by Joseph G. Thibodaux, George Wright, Robert L. Swain, Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, and United States. National Adviosry Committee for Aeronautics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Experimental evaluation of high-purity-silica reinforced ablative composites as nozzle sections of 7.8-inch-(19.8 CM) diameter throat storable-propellant rocket engine (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1967), by Donald A. Peterson and Lewis Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• A resonance-tube igniter for hydrogen-oxygen rocket engines (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1967), by E. William Conrad, Albert J. Pavli, and Lewis Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• A study of refractory materials for seal and bearing applications in aircraft accessory units and rocket motors (Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio : Wright Air Development Center, Air Research and Development Command, United States Air Force, 1958., 1958), by L. B. Sibley, W. H. Goldthwaite, C. L. Peterson, W. J. Zielenbach, C. M. Allen, United States. Air Force. Air Research and Development Command, Wright Air Development Center, and Battelle Memorial Institute (page images at HathiTrust)
• Temperatures in structures. Part 5, One-layer, two space variables, linear problems (White Oak, Maryland : U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory, 1958), by L. C. Barrett, Charles J. Thorne, H. J. Fletcher, United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Ordnance, and Calif.) Naval Ordnance Test Station (China Lake (page images at HathiTrust)
• Temperatures in structures. Part I, General discussion and one-dimension, one-layer problem; analytic solutions (China Lake, California : U. S. Naval Ordnance Test Station, Research Department, 1957., 1957), by Charles J. Thorne, United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Ordnance, and Calif.) Naval Ordnance Test Station (China Lake (page images at HathiTrust)
• Temperatures in structures. Part 6, Two-layer, linear, one-space variable temperature time dependent (China Lake, California : U. S. Naval Ordnance Test Station, Research Department, 1959., 1959), by Charles J. Thorne, United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Ordnance, and Calif.) Naval Ordnance Test Station (China Lake (page images at HathiTrust)
• Temperatures in structures. Part 3, Two- and three-layer cylindrical shells; one-space variable, linear (China Lake, California : U. S. Naval Ordnance Test Station, Research Department, 1958., 1958), by Otto Neall Strand, Charles J. Thorne, United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Ordnance, and Calif.) Naval Ordnance Test Station (China Lake (page images at HathiTrust)
• Temperatures in structures. Part 4, Two- and three-layer shpherical shell segments, one space variable, linear (China Lake, California : U. S. Naval Ordnance Test Station, Research Department, 1958., 1958), by Raymond E. Smithson, United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Ordnance, and Calif.) Naval Ordnance Test Station (China Lake (page images at HathiTrust)
• Temperatures in structures. Part 2, One dimension, two- and three-layer plate problems; analytic solutions (China Lake, California : U. S. Naval Ordnance Test Station, Research Department, 1958., 1958), by Charles J. Thorne, United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Ordnance, and Calif.) Naval Ordnance Test Station (China Lake (page images at HathiTrust)
• High frequency flow/structural interaction in dense subsonic fluids (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1995), by B.-L. Liu, J. M. O'Farrell, Rockwell International, and George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (page images at HathiTrust)

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