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Test gods : Virgin Galactic and the making of a modern astronaut / Nicholas Schmidle.
Author
Schmidle, Nicholas
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/Created
New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2021.
©2021
Description
xii, 333 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Details
Subject(s)
Virgin Galactic
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Employees
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Space vehicles
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United States
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Testing
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Test pilots
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United States
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Astronauts
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United States
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Space tourism
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Summary note
"Based on exclusive inside reporting, New Yorker writer Nicholas Schmidle tells the remarkable story of the test pilots, engineers, and visionaries behind Virgin Galactic's campaign to build a space tourism company. Schmidle follows a handful of characters-Mark Stucky, Virgin's lead test pilot ; Richard Branson, the eccentric billionaire funding the venture ; Mike Moses, the grounded, unflappable president ; Mike Alsbury, the test pilot who lost his life ; and others-through personal and professional dramas, in pursuit of their collective goal : to make space tourism a reality. Along the way, Schmidle weaves his relationship with his father-a former fighter pilot and decorated war hero-into the tragedies and triumphs that Branson's team encounters out in the Mojave Desert as they design, build, and test-fly their private rocketship. Gripping and novelistic, Test Gods leads us, through human drama, into a previously unseen world-and beyond"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-316) and index.
Other title(s)
Virgin Galactic and the making of a modern astronaut
ISBN
9781250229755 (hardcover)
1250229758 (hardcover)
LCCN
2020052702
OCLC
1224042317
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