The Right Stuff
by Wolfe, Tom
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Page tops and bottoms lightly soiled, price sticker on front jacket flap.
- ISBN 10
- 0374250324
- ISBN 13
- 9780374250324
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49738
- Title
- The Right Stuff
- Author
- Wolfe, Tom
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Page tops and bottoms lightly soiled, price sticker on front jacket flap.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0374250324
- ISBN 13
- 9780374250324
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus Giroux
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- 0374250324, NASA, SPACE Exploration, ASTRONAUTS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science and Technology; Books into Film;
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