Wolfe wrote that the book was inspired by the desire to find out why the astronauts accepted the danger of space flight. The story contrasts the "Mercury Seven" and their families with test pilots such as Chuck Yeager, who was considered by many contemporaries as the best of them all, but who was never selected as an astronaut. The Right Stuff is based on extensive research by Wolfe, who interviewed test pilots, the astronauts and their wives, among others. postwar research with experimental rocket-powered, high-speed aircraft as well as documenting the stories of the first Project Mercury astronauts selected for the NASA space program.
Yeager retired on March 1, 1975.The Right Stuff is a 1979 book by Tom Wolfe about the pilots engaged in U.S. Yeager later commanded fighter squadrons in Germany and Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War and was promoted to brigadier general in 1969.
For this feat, Yeager received both the Collier and Mackay trophies in 1948. After the war, he became a test pilot, flying the experimental Bell X-1 at an altitude of 45,000 feet to become the first human to officially break the sound barrier. Yeager began his career during World War II as a private in the United States Army Air Forces. An incredible life well lived, America’s greatest Pilot, & a legacy of strength, adventure, & patriotism will be remembered forever. “An incredible life well lived, America’s greatest pilot and a legacy of strength, adventure and patriotism will be remembered forever.”įr It is w/ profound sorrow, I must tell you that my life love General Chuck Yeager passed just before 9pm ET.
“It is with profound sorrow, I must tell you that my life love General Chuck Yeager passed just before 9 p.m. Yeager’s wife, Victoria Yeager, announced his death on Twitter Monday night. Chuck Yeager, the first person to break the sound barrier and a subject of the book and film “ The Right Stuff,” has died.
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