num_pages: 436
description: 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 emapthetic powers, that made this book a classic.
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: Farrar, Straus and Giroux