num_pages: 384
description: When the future began...The men had it.  Yeager.  Conrad.  Grissom.  Glenn.  Heroes...the first Americans in space...battling the Russians for control of the heavens...putting their lives on the line.  The women had it.  While Mr. Wonderful was aloft, it tore your heart out that the Hero's Wife, down on the ground, had to perform with the whole world watching...the TV Press "What's in your heart?  Do you feel with him while he's in orbit?"The Right Stuff.  It's the quality beyond bravery, beyond courage.  It's men like Chuck Yeager, the greatest  test pilot of all and the fastest man on earth.  Pete Conrad, who almost laughed himself out of the running.  Gus Grissom, who almost lost it when his capsule sank.  John Glenn, the only space traveler whose apple-pie image wasn't a lie.
language: English
title: The Right Stuff
titlecomplete: The Right Stuff
characters: Chuck Yeager, Pete Conrad, John Glenn, Gus Grissom
genres: Biography, Adventure, Science, Nonfiction, Space, American History, Classics, Journalism, Aviation, History
ratings_count: 51876
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: National Book Award
category: General Nonfiction (Hardcover), awardedAt: 284025600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 315561600000
name: Columbia Journalism Award
publisher: Bantam