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The Right Stuffothesis Hanged Man
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The Right Stuffothesis Hanged Man Hardback - 1979

by Tim Wolfe; Tom James Wolfe; Shelby Foote

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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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Millions of words have poured forth about man's trip to the moon, but until now few people have had a sense of the most engrossing side of the adventure; namely, what went on in the minds of the astronauts themselves - in space, on the moon, and even during certain odysseys on earth. It is this, the inner life of the astronauts, that Tom Wolfe describes with his almost uncanny emapthetic powers, that made this book a classic.

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  • Title The Right Stuffothesis Hanged Man
  • Author Tim Wolfe; Tom James Wolfe; Shelby Foote
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar Straus Giroux, New York
  • Publication date 1979
  • ISBN 9780374250324 / 0374250324
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 1 x 1 x 1.11 in (2.54 x 2.54 x 2.82 cm)
  • Reading level 1110
  • Category Nonfiction
  • Library of Congress subjects Astronauts - United States, Astronautics - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 79013901
  • Dewey Decimal Code 629.409
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