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The right stuff

Wolfe, TomKelly, Scott(Introduction by)
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What is it, I wondered, that makes a man willing to sit on top of an enormous Roman Candle, such as a Redstone, Atlas, Titan, or Saturn rocket, and wait for someone to light the fuse?

I decided on the simplest approach possible. I would ask a few of the astronauts and find out - The men had it.

Yeager. Conrad. Grissom. Glenn. Heroes. The first Americans in space - battling the Russians for control of the heavens, putting their lives on the line.

The women had it. While Mr Wonderful was aloft, it tore your heart out that the Hero's Wife, down on the ground, had to perform with the whole world watching. "The Right Stuff". It's the quality beyond bravery, beyond courage.

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Vintage
0099479370 / 9780099479376
Paperback / softback
17/10/2005
United Kingdom
English
436 p.
20 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1979; London: Jonathan Cape, 1980.
The Right Stuff is the best, the funniest, and the most vivid book ever written about America's manned space program. 20050107
The Right Stuff is the best, the funniest, and the most vivid book ever written about America's manned space program. 20050107 1KBB USA, BGT Biography: science, technology & medicine, WNX Popular astronomy & space