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The Right Stuff is the basis for the 1983 film of the same name and the 8-part Disney+ TV mini-series. From a breath-taking epic, a magnificent adventure story, and an investigation into the true heroism and courage of the first Americans to conquer space. "Millions of words have poured forth about man's trip to the moon, but until now few people have had a sense of the most engrossing side of the adventure; namely, what went on in the minds of the astronauts themselves - in space, on the moon, and even during certain odysseys on earth. It is this, the inner life of the astronauts, that Tom Wolfe describes with his almost uncanny empathetic powers, that made The Right Stuff one of the landmark American books of the twentieth century—a celebration of the courage, ego, and sheer physical daring of the men who rode rockets into the unknown, written with the style and bravado that only Tom Wolfe could bring.