The Right Stuff

Tom Wolfe

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Mar 4, 2008 - History - 448 pages

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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User Review  - Josh - Goodreads

Way back in 1979, Tom Wolfe packaged together an exciting story about the initial fleeting moments of the space race, as well as a delightful sense of humor, within the two covers of a non-fiction ...

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User Review  - Michael - Goodreads

What separates The Right Stuff from any other history of spaceflight (that I've read, anyway) is it's not a story of the space program; it's a story about the men, women, and other characters involved ...

About the author

Tom Wolfe is the author of a dozen books, among them such contemporary classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, and I Am Charlotte Simmons. He lives in New York City.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Right Stuff
• Author: Tom Wolfe
• Edition: revised
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
• ISBN: 1429961325, 9781429961325
• Length: 448 pages
• Subjects: History / United States / 20th Century; Technology & Engineering / Aeronautics & Astronautics