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Test gods : Virgin Galactic and the making of a modern astronaut / Nicholas Schmidle.

by Schmidle, Nicholas.

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Henry Holt and Company, 2021.

Virgin Galactic -- Employees.

Space vehicles -- United States -- Testing.

Test pilots -- United States.

Astronauts -- United States.

9781250229755 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Virgin Galactic and the making of a modern astronaut

xii, 333 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-316) and index.

"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."--From publisher.

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