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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Schmidle, Nicholas, author.     Subjects     Virgin Galactic -- Employees.     Space vehicles -- United States -- Testing.     Test pilots -- United States.     Astronauts -- United States.     Space tourism.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Schmidle, Nicholas, author.       by title:      Test gods : Virgin G...         MARC Display

Test gods : Virgin Galactic and the making of a modern astronaut / Nicholas Schmidle. by Schmidle, Nicholas, author. New York, NY : Henry Holt and Company, 2021. Subjects Virgin Galactic -- Employees.   Space vehicles -- United States -- Testing.   Test pilots -- United States.   Astronauts -- United States.   Space tourism. ISBN:  9781250229755 (hardcover) : 1250229758 (hardcover) : Description:  xii, 333 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Based on exclusive inside reporting, New Yorker writer Nicholas Schmidle tells the remarkable story of the test pilots, engineers, and visionaries behind Virgin Galactic's campaign to build a space tourism company. Schmidle follows a handful of characters-Mark Stucky, Virgin's lead test pilot ; Richard Branson, the eccentric billionaire funding the venture ; Mike Moses, the grounded, unflappable president ; Mike Alsbury, the test pilot who lost his life ; and others-through personal and professional dramas, in pursuit of their collective goal : to make space tourism a reality. Along the way, Schmidle weaves his relationship with his father-a former fighter pilot and decorated war hero-into the tragedies and triumphs that Branson's team encounters out in the Mojave Desert as they design, build, and test-fly their private rocketship. Gripping and novelistic, Test Gods leads us, through human drama, into a previously unseen world-and beyond"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 387.80922 Sc Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua-Kona Public Library Adult Nonfiction 387.80922 Sc Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 387.80922 Sc Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 387.80922 Sc Checked In Add Copy to MyList Naalehu Public Library Adult Nonfiction 387.80922 Sc Checked In Add Copy to MyList North Kohala Public Library Adult Nonfiction 387.80922 Sc Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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