Bibliograph

The right stuff, Tom Wolfe

Type

Label

The right stuff, Tom Wolfe

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

1110L, Lexile

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The right stuff

Oclc number

5007334

Responsibility statement

Tom Wolfe

Summary

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

Table Of 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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