‘What is it,’ asks Tom Wolfe, ‘that makes a man willing to sit on top of an enormous Roman Candle . . . and wait for someone to light the fuse?’
Arrogance? Stupidity? Courage? Or, simply, that quality we call ‘the right stuff?’
A monument to the men who battled to beat the Russians into space, The Right Stuff is a voyage into the mythology of the American space programme, and a dizzying dive into the sweat, fear, beauty and danger of being on the white-hot edge of history in the making.
Tom Wolfe at his very best . . . Learned, cheeky, risky, touching, tough, compassionate, nostalgic, worshipful, jingoistic . . . The Right Stuff is superb – New York Times
With an introduction by US Astronaut Scott Kelly.
Spaced Out
On 16 July 1969 I was in Florida with three friends, driving along the mile-wide Indian River. We were trying to park our battered Oldsmobile and look over the water to Apollo 11, because on board...
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