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020 | _a9781529157420 | ||
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_cPurchased _nPrism Books,Kadavanthra |
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041 | _aEnglish | ||
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_a387.8092273 _bSCH/TE |
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100 | _aSchmidle,Nicholas | ||
245 | _aTEST GODS : Tragedy and Triumph in the New Space Race | ||
250 | _a1 | ||
260 |
_aUK _bPenguin Books _c2021/01/01 |
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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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