Test gods : Virgin Galactic and the making of a modern astronaut / Nicholas Schmidle.
"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 t...
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| Other title: | Virgin Galactic and the making of a modern astronaut. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Henry Holt and Company,
2021.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 333 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-316) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781250229755 1250229758 |