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Book · 1979 · Nonfiction

The Right Stuff

Tom Wolfe
Penguin Random House · 448 pages
★ 5.9 editorial score

Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier with two cracked ribs hidden from the flight surgeon. Wolfe named the code such men flew by, and America still tells the space race in his words.

Genre
ReportingAdventureCultural criticism
Subject
AviationSpace travelMasculinityCold War
Setting
United States
Time
1979Depicts Cold WarDepicts 1950s

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“It is useful to distinguish among four factors which give importance, urgency, and inevitability to the advancement of space technology. The first of these factors is the compelling urge of man to explore and to discover, the thrust of curiosity that leads men to try to go where no one has gone before.”

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