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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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This book is about the beginning of the United States space program and astronaut training. It gives an insider's view of the rigorous astronaut selection process with an emphasis on using military pilots. The progress of the space program, the perks, the politics and hoopla all have a place in this book. There is also a wonderful nod to the test pilots at Edwards AFB...
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WITHIN FIVE MINUTES, OR TEN MINUTES, NO MORE THAN that three of the others had called her on the telephone to ask her if she had heard that something had happened out there.
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- Title The Right Stuff
- Author Tom Wolfe
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- Edition 1st Edition
- Pages 368
- Publisher Bantam, New York
- Date October 30, 2001
- ISBN 9780553381351
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