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"Tom was responsible for setting up the operation in Florida that prepared all the equipment, putting the propellants on board, checking it all out — a complex operation," said Mr. Tribe, who later became chief engineer for the Boeing-Rockwell Company.

Higher energies are possible if other energy sources (e.g., electric or microwave heating) are used in conjunction with the chemical propellants on board the rockets, and extremely high energies are achievable when the exhaust is accelerated by electromagnetic means.

"Both [YouTube and Comedy Central] were equal propellants on either side of the rocket that got my career up in the atmosphere," Dunham says.

We have experimentally studied the effects of pressure, initial temperature, catalytic additives, and energy included in the propellants on flame-spreading into a hole in solid propellants.

Studies were carried out on XM39 and M43 propellants, on an HMX-polyester composition (HMX2) and on pure RDX, at pressures ranging from atmospheric (0.1 MPa to 2.0 MPa).

Effects of various grain sizes (300 425, 425 500, 500 600, 600 710, 710 850 μm) and initial temperatures (−60, −20, 0, 20, and 60 °C) of double base propellants on internal pressure, bullet velocity and barrel heat transfer were investigated experimentally and computationally.

"It's not a simple thing to transfer cryogenic propellant, on the ground, much less in space," said Eugene M. Henderson, an engineer at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, who is one of about 20 people who worked on the study.

Hydrazine, N2H4, is commonly used as a propellant on spacecraft.

"Perhaps we can make liquid oxygen rocket propellant on those moons and then we wouldn't have to bring it all the way from Earth".

Utilizing a propellant depot to aggregate propellant on orbit, smaller launch vehicles are capable of delivering all of the mass necessary for space exploration.

The key ingredients are full reusability of ships and vehicles, and the rest is made up by refilling in orbit, actually producing more propellant on Mars for return trips, and choosing the right propellant to make that possible and efficient.