Nicholas Schmidle

Test Gods (eBook, ePUB)

Tragedy and Triumph in the New Space Race

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Masterly' New York Times
'Riveting' Scott Kelly
'Remarkable' The Times

When Richard Branson founded Virgin Galactic in 2004, his goal was simple: to offer paying customers a trip to space by the end of the decade. Seventeen years, countless delays, and one catastrophic crash later, his space tourism dream may finally be on the verge of reality.

Now, a New Yorker journalist offers the definitive portrait of the adventurers leading the way to the stars. Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews with Virgin's lead test pilot, Mark Stucky, Test Gods describes the making of a modern astronaut: from starry-eyed youth to NASA, the Air Force, and Virgin Galactic; and through dozens of gruelling test flights to his first successful trip beyond the earth's atmosphere.

The result is the most vivid exploration of an astronaut's inner life since Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff. It offers an intimate and unique insight into the new space race.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781473568600
• Artikelnr.: 60400641

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Schmidle writes for the New Yorker and is the author of To Live or To Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan. His work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Atlantic, Slate, Washington Post, and many others. Schmidle has been a National Magazine Award finalist, a two-time Livingston Award finalist, and winner of a Kurt Schork Award. He is a former fellow at the Institute of Current World Affairs, the New America Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and was resident at the Rockefeller's Foundation's Bellagio Center. In 2017, Schmidle was a Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University. He currently lives in London with his family.

Inhaltsangabe

PROLOGUE Blue Zebra
PART ONE: BROTHERS
1. Born to Fly
2. Forger
3. A Beautiful Ball
4. God Is Here
5. Foggles
6. The Rebel Billionaire
7. Hidden Tigers
8. Evil Air
9. The Party
10. Angel's Wings
11.The Gamma Turn
12. They're Gone
13. Wreckage
14. The Red Balloon
PART TWO: FATHERS
15. A Resemblance
16. Jousting
17. Whale Lines
18. Blank Pages
19. Starman
20. Jitters
21. The Walnut
22. Gradatim Ferociter
23. Artifacts
24. Full Duration
PART THREE: SONS
25. Slipping the Surly Bonds
26. Million-Dollar View
27. Defining Space
28. Dagobah
29. Fortune Cookies
30. Thoroughbred
31.The Space Mirror
32. Wings
EPILOGUE Magic
AUTHOR'S NOTE
NOTES
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
INDEX