Tom Wolfe at his very best (The New York Times Book Review), The
Right Stuff is the 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.