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Tom Wolfe
(27 Mar 1931 - )
American novelist whose 1979 book The Right Stuff won the American Book Award for nonfiction. It covers the exploits of pilots of experimental rocket-powered aircraft leading up to the first Project Mercury astronauts of the early NASA flights into space.
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Science Quotes by Tom Wolfe (1)
What is it, that makes a man willing to sit up on top of an enormous Roman candle, such as a Redstone, Atlas, Titan or Saturn rocket, and wait for someone to light the fuse? (1979)
— Tom Wolfe
The Right Stuff' (2001), xiii.
See also: | Astronaut (4)
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