The Reluctant Rocketman: A Curious Journey in World Record by Sarah Kasprowicz

By Sarah Kasprowicz

In October, 1970, The Blue Flame rocket motor vehicle screamed around the Bonneville Salt apartments at 622.407 mph environment absolutely the international land pace checklist. The identify held speedy for thirteen years and continues to be the quickest American-built vehicle in historical past. Ray Dausman designed the rocket engine for The Blue Flame. Why wasn't he current while The Blue Flame set the area checklist? Why did not the auto in attaining 1,000 mph as he designed it to do? Ray's tale unfolds with funny observations of what it used to be prefer to be a fish out of water within the racing global. The reader has a entrance row seat for this wrestling fit among remorse and standpoint of feat. Sarah, Ray's daughter, stocks his tale during this memoir of a guy with a keenness for rockets and new ideas.

The Reluctant Rocketman introduces the reader to a boy with a thirst for brand new adventures who develops a keenness for rockets as he reaches maturity with a good larger appreciation for brand new principles. The Blue Flame undertaking is the typical thread all through those chapters which make clear the existence a self-taught rocket clothier who needed to come to a decision if the cost of invention used to be worthy it after all.

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