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The right stuff : illustrated

'What is it I wondered, that makes a man willing to sit on top of an enormous roman candel, such as Redstone, Atlas, Titan, or saturn roicket, and wait for someone to light the fuse? I decided on the simplest approach possible. I would ask a few of the astronauts and find out ... 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.. While Mr Wonderfull was aloft it tore your heart out that the Hero's Wife, down on the ground, had to perform with the world watching. The Right Stuff. It's the quality beyond bravery, beyond courage."--Cover.

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  • "Right Stuff"
  • "The right stuff"@it
  • "Right stuff illustrated"
  • "Right stuff"@it
  • "Right stuff"
  • "Elegidos para la gloria"@es

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  • "Enhanced by hundreds of period photographs, presents an illustrated edition of the classic portrait of America's early space program and its first astronauts."
  • "'What is it I wondered, that makes a man willing to sit on top of an enormous roman candel, such as Redstone, Atlas, Titan, or saturn roicket, and wait for someone to light the fuse? I decided on the simplest approach possible. I would ask a few of the astronauts and find out ... 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.. While Mr Wonderfull was aloft it tore your heart out that the Hero's Wife, down on the ground, had to perform with the world watching. The Right Stuff. It's the quality beyond bravery, beyond courage."--Cover."@en
  • ""What is it, I wondered, that makes a man willing to sit on top of an enormous roman candle, such as a Redstone, Atlas, Titan, or Saturn rocket, and wait for someone to light the fuse? I decided on the simplest approach possible. I would ask a few of the astronauts and find out ... The Right Stuff is the best, the funniest, and the most vivid book ever written about America's manned space program."
  • "First published in England by Jonathan Cape in 1980."@en
  • "A narrative of the early days of the U.S. space program and the people who made it happen, including Chuck Yeager, Pete Conrad, Gus Grissom, and John Glenn."@en
  • "A narrative of the early days of the U.S. space program and the people who made it happen, including Chuck Yeager, Pete Conrad, Gus Grissom, and John Glenn."
  • "Discusses the lives, ambitions, thoughts, and feelings of American astronauts before, during, and after their historic flights."@en
  • "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 Conference: "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."@en
  • "Philip Kaufman's intimate epic about the Mercury astronauts (based on Tom Wolfe's book) was one of the most ambitious and spectacularly exciting movies of the 1980s. It surprised almost everybody by not becoming a smash hit. By all rights, the film should have been every bit the success that Apollo 13 would later become; The Right Stuff is not only just as thrilling, but it is also a bigger and better movie. Combining history (both established and revisionist), grand mythmaking (and myth puncturing), adventure, melodrama, behind-the-scenes dish, spectacular visuals, and a down-to-earth sense of humor, The Right Stuff chronicles NASA's efforts to put a man in orbit. Such an achievement would be the first step toward President Kennedy's goal of reaching the moon, and, perhaps most important of all, would win a crucial public relations/morale victory over the Soviets, who had delivered a stunning blow to American pride by launching Sputnik, the first satellite. The movie contrasts the daring feats of the unsung test pilots--one of whom, Chuck Yeager, embodied more than anyone else the skill and spirit of Wolfe's title--against the heavily publicized (and sanitized) accomplishments of the Mercury astronauts. Through no fault of their own, the spacemen became prisoners of the heroic images the government created for them in order to capture the public's imagination. The casting is inspired; the film features Sam Shepard as the legendary Yeager, Ed Harris as John Glenn, Dennis Quaid as "Gordo" Cooper, Scott Glenn as Alan Shepard, Fred Ward as Gus Grissom, Scott Wilson as Scott Crossfield, and Pamela Reed and Veronica Cartwright are superb in their thankless roles as astronauts' wives."@en
  • "The lives of the American astronauts (up to the start of the Gemini program in 1965) are presented, as well as the politics involved in the beginning of the era of manned rocket flight in America."@en
  • "The inside story of the seven mercury astronauts, America's first space heroes."@en
  • "Project Mercury: the catch-up crash program to put an American into space. The technology was in its infancy. The rockets were unproven. The gamble was enormous. And the pressure was on, because the Russians were already up there. To man Project Mercury, America needed pilots with "the right stuff"--Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra, Gordon Cooper and Deke Slayton, the men who were chosen to launch the U.S. into space."@en
  • "Discusses the lives, ambitions, thoughts, and feelings of the seven Project Mecury astronauts before, during, and after their historic space flights."
  • "Men first flew into space in 1961, but until The Right Stuff was first published in 1979 few people had a sense of the most engrossing side of that adventure: namely, the perceptions and goals of the astronauts themselves, aloft and during certain remarkable odysseys on earth. It is this, the inner world of the early astronauts, John Glenn, Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, and their confreres, that Tom Wolfe describes with his extraordinary powers of empathy. He shows us the bidden olympus to which all ambitious combat and test pilots aspired, the top of the pyramid of the right stuff. And we learn the nature of the ineffable pilot's grace without which all else meant nothing. We see the men whose achievements dominated the flying fraternity in the late 1950's as the space age began, men like Chuck Yeager and Joe Walker, pilots of the first rocket planes, most notably the X-1 and the X-15. The selection of the Mercury astronauts in 1959 shook up the fraternity as thoroughly as had Yeager's breaking of the sound barrier twelve years before. Public excitement and concern over the space race with the Soviets immediately elevated the seven astronauts to the uneasy eminence of heroes, long before their first flight. We see the seven men, in the very moment of their idolization by the outside world, struggling to gain the respect of their peers within the flying fraternity, even to the point of altering NASA's original conception of the astronaut's role in keeping with the unspoken prerequisites of the right stuff. - Author web site."@en
  • "Dénonciation du mythe des héros à l'américaine, ce gros roman solide et bien construit (1979) prend appui sur la rivalité entre les Etats-Unis et la Russie pour la conquête de l'espace. Cela fournit un récit d'aventures où la psychologie des protagonistes est analysée avec profondeur et lucidité tandis que la narration elle-même, dans un style dynamique et vigoureux, empoigne le lecteur."
  • "Gedocumenteerd verhaal over de beginperiode van de bemande ruimtevaart in de Verenigde Staten."
  • "Beschrijving van het leven van de groep astronauten tijdens de periode van de eerste Amerikaanse ruimtevluchten in het begin van de jaren zestig."
  • "The moments of grandeur and weakness, the aspirations, and the problems of America's astronauts are revealed in an exploration of the dimensions of their inner lives in space, on the moon, and on the earth."@en

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  • "History"
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Roman américain"
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Biography"
  • "Biography"@en
  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Publishers' advertisements"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Biographies"
  • "Fiction"@en

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  • "L'étoffe des héros"
  • "The right stuff : illustrated"
  • "The right stuff : illustrated"@en
  • "La stoffa giusta"
  • "La stoffa giusta"@it
  • "Rätta virket"@sv
  • "Rätta virket"
  • "L'étouffe des héros"
  • "S-kadra"@pl
  • "The Right stuff"
  • "Right stuff"@en
  • "Right Stuff"
  • "Elegidos para la gloria : lo que hay que tener"
  • "Elegidos para la gloria : lo que hay que tener"@es
  • "Elegidos para la gloria lo que hay que tener"@es
  • "L'Etoffe des héros"
  • "Tai kong ying xiong"
  • "The right stuff : [screenplay]"@en
  • "The right stuff"
  • "The right stuff"@en
  • ""The right stuff : combined continuity & master spotting list"@en
  • "Kold marv"@da
  • "Kold marv"
  • "Ratta virket"
  • "The Right Stuff"
  • "L'Étoffe des héros"
  • "Nuzhnai︠a︡ veshchʹ"
  • "Elegidos para la gloria (Lo que hay que tener)"
  • "L'etoffe des heros"
  • "THE RIGHT STUFF"
  • "太空英雄"
  • "The right stuff : illlustrated"
  • "Pure klasse"
  • "The right stuff : a novel"@en
  • "Die Helden der Nation Reportage-Roman"
  • "Lo que hay que tener"
  • "Lo que hay que tener"@es
  • "Lo que hay que tener"@ca
  • "Elegidos para la gloria"@es
  • "Elegidos para la gloria"
  • "Die Helden der Nation"
  • "Die Helden der Nation : Reportage-Roman"

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