The Right Stuff

Download The Right Stuff PDF book from here or read the whole book online. The Right Stuff, Explains the lives of pilots involved in the U.S. postwar research with experimental rocket-powered, high-speed aircraft and the astronauts of NASA’s Project Mercury program.

The book explores the immense risks that test pilots were already taking and the mental and physical attributes—the so-called “right stuff”—that their jobs demanded and cultivated. Wolfe portrays the astronauts as “single combat warriors” from a bygone era who received their people’s honor and admiration before embarking on a mission on their behalf.