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Wolfe, Tom.
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Astronautics -- United States.
Astronauts -- United States.
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The right stuff / Tom Wolfe.
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Wolfe, Tom.
New York : Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2008]
Subjects
Astronautics -- United States.
Astronauts -- United States.
ISBN:
0312427565 (paperback)
9780312427566 (paperback)
Description:
xiii, 352 pages ; 21 cm
Contents:
The angels -- The right stuff -- Yeager -- The lab rat -- In single combat -- On the balcony -- The Cape -- The thrones -- The vote -- Righteous prayer -- The unscrewable pooch -- The tears -- The operational stuff -- The club -- The high desert.
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Men first flew into space in 1961, but until The Right Stuff was first published in 1979 few people had a sense of the most engrossing side of that adventure: namely, the perceptions and goals of the astronauts themselves, aloft and during certain remarkable odysseys on earth. It is this, the inner world of the early astronauts, John Glenn, Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, and their confreres, that Tom Wolfe describes with his extraordinary powers of empathy. He shows us the bidden olympus to which all ambitious combat and test pilots aspired, the top of the pyramid of the right stuff. And we learn the nature of the ineffable pilot's grace without which all else meant nothing. We see the men whose achievements dominated the flying fraternity in the late 1950's as the space age began, men like Chuck Yeager and Joe Walker, pilots of the first rocket planes, most notably the X-1 and the X-15. The selection of the Mercury astronauts in 1959 shook up the fraternity as thoroughly as had Yeager's breaking of the sound barrier twelve years before. Public excitement and concern over the space race with the Soviets immediately elevated the seven astronauts to the uneasy eminence of heroes, long before their first flight. We see the seven men, in the very moment of their idolization by the outside world, struggling to gain the respect of their peers within the flying fraternity, even to the point of altering NASA's original conception of the astronaut's role in keeping with the unspoken prerequisites of the right stuff. - Author web site.
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National Book Award1980: General nonfiction (Hardcover)
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