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.
We see the men those achievements dominated the flying fraternity in the late 1950\'s as the.
He shows us the hidden 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.
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