num_pages: 369
description: Tom Wolfe at his very best ( The New York Times Book Review ) The Right Stuff is t he basis for the 1983 Oscar Award-winning film of the same name and the 8-part Disney TV mini-series.From America's nerviest journalist ( Newsweek )--a breath-taking epic a magnificent adventure story and an investigation into the true heroism and courage of the first Americans to conquer space. Millions of words have poured forth about man's trip to the moon but until now few people have had a sense of the most engrossing side of the adventure; namely what went on in the minds of the astronauts themselves - in space on the moon and even during certain odysseys on earth. It is this the inner life of the astronauts that Tom Wolfe describes with his almost uncanny empathetic powers that made The Right Stuff a classic.
language: English
title: The Right Stuff
publisher: None