In the canon
The Right Stuff
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1979
- Pages
- Pages 440
Not long before he became the first man to fly faster than sound, Chuck Yeager broke two ribs falling off a horse in the dark, told nobody, and had a friend saw a length off a broomstick so he could lever the hatch of the X-1 shut one-handed. Tom Wolfe never defines the right stuff, because the men who had it never did either: it is an invisible ziggurat they climb, and the only proof of it is that you went up again the morning after burying a friend.
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