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020			_a9781529157420
037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books,Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_a387.8092273 _bSCH/TE
100			_aSchmidle,Nicholas
245			_aTEST GODS : Tragedy and Triumph in the New Space Race
250			_a1
260			_aUK _bPenguin Books _c2021/01/01
300			_g333
500			_a"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"
650			_aSpace tourism
650			_aSpace vehicles--Testing
650			_aTest pilots -- United States
650			_aUnited States
650			_aAstronauts
650			_aEmployees
650			_aVirgin Galactic -- Employees
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