Schmidle,Nicholas <br/><br/>
TEST GODS : Tragedy and Triumph in the New Space Race 

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 - UK  Penguin Books  2021/01/01 
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<br/><br/> "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" 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781529157420 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label> Purchased  Prism Books,Kadavanthra 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Space tourism<br/>Space vehicles--Testing<br/>Test pilots -- United States<br/>United States<br/>Astronauts<br/>Employees<br/>Virgin Galactic -- Employees
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>387.8092273  / SCH/TE