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Future Spacecraft Propulsion Systems: Enabling Technologies for Space Exploration (Springer Praxis Books / Astronautical Engineering)

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Its rather expensive, but you get what you pay for.. Overall a very good book. Its a practical, applied engineering text, rather than a physics text book. The book starts out with existing rocket hardware, and then makes rational expansions into rocket based combined cycles and air breathing scramjets. It moves on to various applications of nuclear rocketry (both thermal and electric) and ends with a discussion of various fusion propulsion concepts. There isn't much speculation on esoteric physics such as wormholes - just applied engineering based on known principles of physics. Its written by engineers, for engineers (I'm an aerospace propulsion engineer myself). The non-technical reader might find this a bit heavy.