The first Americans in space--Yeager, Conrad, Grissom, and Glenn--battle the Russians for control of the heavens and put their lives on the line to demonstrate a quality beyond courage, in this classic by Wolfe.

Reviews

Wolfe's 1979 best-selling portrait of the Mercury space program and the gutsy military test pilots who became the first U.S. astronauts is morphed into a superb illustrated edition featuring hundreds of period color and monochrome photographs of the major players and the crafts that made history. This Right Stuff is great stuff. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

"Technically accurate, learned, cheeky, risky, touching, tough, compassionate, nostalgic, worshipful, jingoistic . . . "The Right Stuff "is superb.""--The New York Times Book Review"

"One of the most romantic and thrilling books ever written about men who put themselves in peril.""--The Boston Globe"

"An exhilarating flight into fear, love, beauty, and fiery death . . . Magnificent."--"People"

"Absolutely first class . . . Improbable as some of Wolfe's tales seem, I know he's telling it like it was.""--The Washington Post Book World"

"Crammed with inside poop and racy incident . . . fast cars, booze, astro groupies, the envies and injuries of the military caste system . . . Wolfe lays it all out in brilliantly staged Op Lit scenes."--"Time"

"Splendid . . . It shows our propensity to manufacture heroes, and, just as quickly, to forget them; it shows how a scientific program was exploited for political advantage; it provides a revealing character study of seven exceptional Americans."--"The Saturday Review"