The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe, Softcover Book

Title: The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe, Softcover Book.
Author: Tom Wolfe.
Type: Non-Fiction - The Space Race
Edition: Bantam Books 1983.
Publisher: Bantam.
Year Published: First Published 1979.
Format: Softcover Book.
Printed By: Bantam USA.
Page Count: 367.
Size: Width: 11cm
      Height: 17cm
      Thickness: 2.8cm
Info:
The Right Stuff is a 1979 book by Tom Wolfe about the pilots engaged in U.S. postwar research with experimental rocket-powered, high-speed aircraft as well as documenting the stories of the first Project Mercury astronauts selected for the NASA space 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. He recounts the enormous risks that test pilots were already taking, and the mental and physical characteristicsthe titular "right stuff"required for and reinforced by their jobs. Wolfe likens the astronauts to "single combat warriors" from an earlier era who received the honor and adoration of their people before going forth to fight on their behalf.
The 1983 film The Right Stuff is adapted from the book.
Condition: Good, binding, spine and pages all intact, some pages faded in colour on edges and front and end papers.
Price: R 75.00 Inc Vat.