The Right Stuff.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1979. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket. This is Tom Wolfe's classic and masterful journalistic account of the history of the U.S. manned space program from the test flights of the X-15 to the Gemini program. The Right Stuff is based on extensive research by Wolfe, who interviewed test pilots, the astronauts and their wives, among others. The story contrasts the "Mercury Seven" and their families with test pilots such as Chuck Yeager, who was considered by many contemporaries as the best of them all, but who was never selected as an astronaut. Wolfe wrote that the book was inspired by the desire to find out why the astronauts accepted the danger of space flight. Item #28351
ISBN: 0374250324
Price: $195.00 save 25% $146.25