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100 1  $a Schmidle, Nicholas,.
245 1  $a Test gods : $b Virgin Galactic and the making of a modern astronaut / $c Nicholas Schmidle.
250    $a First edition.
264  1 $a New York, NY :  $b Henry Holt and Company,  $c 2021.
300    $a 1 online resource.
504    $a Includes bibliographical references and index.
520    $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"-- $c Provided by publisher.
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610 2  $a Virgin Galactic $x Employees.
650    $a Test pilots $z United States.
650    $a Space tourism.
650    $a Space vehicles $z United States $x Testing.
650    $a Astronauts $z United States.
710    $a Schmidle, Nicholas., $d First edition.
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