The Right Stuff, Book 41, (Paperback)

from Stephen

One of the great stories ever written about the US Space program.

from Othemts

The Right Stuff is one of my all-time favorite movies, and after watching it dozens of times I finally read the book. As books tend to be, it was a lot more in-depth exploring the history of space flight from the test pilots attempting to break the sound barrier in the 1940's through the end of t...

from fuzzi

Author Tom Wolfe has done something that I did not expect when I started reading "The Right Stuff", his book about the first astronauts and the Mercury program. He did not just write a history of the early days of the race to space, pre-NASA, nor did he just write an expose of the personal detail...

from Stbalbach

The Right Stuff was published in 1979, or only about 20 years from the events it describes. We are now about 35 years from the book so it's beginning to age and it's possible to consider how time has treated it. My assessment is it's a classic of the first order that will be read for generations,...

from othersam

On Tuesday October 14th 1947, Chuck Yeager flew into the history books as the first man to break the sound barrier; he did this with one arm almost completely immobilized because of the two ribs he'd cracked when he rode his horse straight into a gate while drunk two nights before (though of cour...