Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff

Tom Wolfe, a renowned American journalist, and novelist who has written a dozen successful American fictions from 1965 to 2012. In particular, Wolfe’s novel, The Right Stuff, illustrates the early stage of the United States space program and the story of the fearless American astronauts and test pilots who made massive achievements and contributions to the science and practice of aviation, such as broking the sound barrier and conquering the space. Before the Tom Wolfe’s career and destiny as a journalist and novelist, he wants to be a professional baseball player and even tried out for the New York Giants after he graduated from the Washington and Lee University in 1951, but it was a failure at the end. After that, he abandoned baseball and

To compare these two occupations, his interests range from baseball to writing, which illuminates that he has an impressively diverse range of interests. Moreover, from the Author’s Note of the book, it shows that Wolfe put a tremendous amount of effort to wrote this book, which also expresses his strong interest in NASA and space program. Therefore, he wrote this book in order to satisfy the demands of others who were interested in United States space program. Besides, in The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe is seeking to reveal the possession of the “right stuff” necessary to be a successful pilot and inform the public on massive of the contributions made by pilots and space program in order to depict those American astronauts as the epitome of American

In The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe describes the story that how astronauts and test pilots consistently risk their lives in an attempt to conquer the space and challenge the sound barrier. Moreover, it also shows how the space program and astronaut influence the United States and the other countries. Throughout the book, the description of a series of events that relate to the test pilots and the Mercury 7 astronauts are two major sections. These two sections are primarily taken places in the Edwards Air Force Base where is the desert location of Muroc field and NASA’s base in Cape Canaveral and Houston respectively. Besides, the specific timeline of the whole story is from the late 1940s to mid-1960s under the background of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet