The Right Stuff

by Tom Wolfe
List(s):"Extreme Classics"
Category: "Nature/Science"
Pages:352
Year of Publication:1979
Date Added:04/18/2008
Date Read:09/21/2014
Notes:A look at what makes a good test pilot and, later, an astronaut. It starts with Chuck Yeager and the other pilots of the first rocket planes, continues through the selection of the first seven astronauts and then tells of their spaceflights in the Mercury program. It also delves into their thinking, the behavior out of the spotlight and the effect their careers had on their wives.
My Rating: 6

Reviews for The Right Stuff

Review - Right Stuff, The

Some of it was interesting. The parts about piloting the rocket planes and setting the Mach records got old quickly, as did the long stretches where Wolfe got caught up in his own cleverness as a writer and took way to long to say, for example, that one of the astronauts got scared for a minute.

Reviewed by Roger on 2014-09-21 19:40:15

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