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The Right Stuff
(Paperback, 1988)
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Author: Tom Wolfe
Much of Tom Wolfe's compelling story of the first astronauts--Grissom, Conrad, Glenn, and others--fo...
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Much of Tom Wolfe's compelling story of the first astronauts--Grissom, Conrad, Glenn, and others--focuses on Chuck Yeager, the brave test pilot who first broke the sound barrier and flew in subspace. While never an astronaut, Yeager epitomized the character and qualities Wolfe saw in the astronauts of the Mercury program.
| Size | | Height: | 7.3 in | | Width: | 4.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 7.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
"I lived at Edwards [Air Force Base] for four years and improbable as some of Tom's tales seem, I know he's telling it like it was.... He's obviously done a lot of homework--too much is some cases.... Some of this stuff could only be interesting to Al Shepard's mother, while the first part of the book is a paean to guts, to the 'right stuff,' it is followed by a chronology--but one that might have profited form a little tighter editing. But it's still light-years ahead of the endless drivel Mailer has put out about the Apollo program and in places the Wolfe genius really shines."
Washington Post Book World - Michael Collins
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