Test Gods (Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut)

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Author:
Nicholas Schmidle
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
352
Publisher:
Henry Holt and Co. (May 3, 2022)
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9781250838940
ISBN-10:
1250838940
Weight:
15.04oz
Dimensions:
5.37" x 8.25" x 0.78"
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Overview

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

In the spirit of The Right Stuff, updated for the 21st century, Test Gods is an epic story about extreme bravery and sacrifice, about the thin line between lunacy and genius. Most of all, it is a story about the pursuit of meaning in our lives—and the fulfillment of our dreams.


Working from 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 killed in a fatal crash; 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 confronts out in the Mojave desert as they design, build, and test-fly their private rocket ship. Gripping and novelistic, Test Gods leads us, through human drama, into a previously unseen world—and beyond.

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