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Test gods : Virgin Galactic and the making of a modern astronaut
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First edition.
"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 inthe 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"--
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- 11 of 11 copies available at Westchester Library System.
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| Bedford Free Library | 387.809 S (Text) Nonfiction |
31002150817566 |
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| Greenburgh Public Library | 387.809 S (Text) Nonfiction |
31009154810778 |
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| Hendrick Hudson Free Library | 387.809 S (Text) Nonfiction |
31016151754800 |
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| John C. Hart Memorial Library | 387.809 S (Text) Nonfiction |
31030155030968 |
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| Larchmont Public Library | 387.8092 S (Text) Nonfiction |
31014152758565 |
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| Mount Pleasant Public Library | 387.809 S (Text) Nonfiction |
31024153249498 |
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| New Rochelle Public Library | 387.809 S (Text) Nonfiction |
31019156611413 |
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| North Castle Public Library | 387.8092 S (Text) Nonfiction |
31001151997724 |
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| Ossining Public Library | 387.809 S (Text) Nonfiction |
31021153417992 |
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| The Field Library | 387.809 S (Text) Nonfiction |
31022152288897 |
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