TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schmidle,Nicholas
TI  - TEST GODS : Tragedy and Triumph in the New Space Race
SN  - 9781529157420
U1  - 387.8092273 
PY  - 2021////01/01
CY  - UK
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Space tourism
KW  - Space vehicles--Testing
KW  - Test pilots -- United States
KW  - United States
KW  - Astronauts
KW  - Employees
KW  - Virgin Galactic -- Employees
N1  - "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"
ER  -