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The Right Stuff [Library Binding Prebound - 1999
by Tom James Wolfe
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- Title The Right Stuff [Library Binding
- Binding Prebound
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Turtleback Books
- Date October 1999
- Bookseller's Inventory # AZ-2-4MUP-A500542
- ISBN 9780808511366 / 080851136X
- Weight 0.52 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 7.12 x 4.24 x 1.24 in (18.08 x 10.77 x 3.15 cm)
- Reading level 1110
- Dewey Decimal Code 629.45
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Summary
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...
First line
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.