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A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceIn the spirit of The Right Stuff, updated for the 21st century, Test Gods is an epic story about extreme bravery and sacrifice, about the thin line between lunacy and genius. Most of all, it is a story about the pursuit of meaning in our lives—and the fulfillment of our dreams.Working from 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 killed in a fatal crash; 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 confronts out in the Mojave desert as they design, build, and test-fly their private rocket ship. Gripping and novelistic, Test Gods leads us, through human drama, into a previously unseen world—and beyond.

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“Test Gods” is a compelling story of modern spaceflight told through the eyes of an American aviator: Mark Stucky.At three years old, Mark Stucky saw John Glenn orbit the earth in Friendship 7 and set his sights on becoming an astronaut. He was also strongly influenced by a National Geographic article about the X-15 Rocket Plane program.Stucky’s path to space was a long one. Like John Glenn, he became a Marine Aviator and Test Pilot, but his applications to the NASA astronaut corps were continuously rejected. After seeing Burt Rutan’s SpaceShip One make two suborbital spaceflights and win the X Prize in 2004, Stucky first conceived of the possibility that he could make it to space as an employee of a private company.To Schmidle’s and Stucky’s credit, the book does not gloss over the less-than-glamorous aspect’s of Stucky’s story. His first marriage ended in divorce and strained relationships with his children. He’s buried many friends during his years in aviation. His above-average tolerance for risk has resulted in multiple broken bones and stress on his loved ones.Stucky’s life is not one that is reminiscent of Apollo-era astronauts, who had their bravery rewarded with ticker-tape parades, national recognition, and lucrative positions in the private sector after the end of their time in the astronaut corps. Instead, his story is more reminiscent of Scott Crossfield, Bill Dana, and other X-15 test pilots who risked their lives in relative obscurity, flying experimental aircraft over the high desert of California while their equally qualified compatriots at NASA won fame, glory, and life magazine photoshoots of their homes in Houston.Schmidle’s writing style makes for a very easy read. The book isn’t quite a biography, but more a view into the story of the emerging private space industry from the perspective of a test pilot. The book does bear a fair amount of similarity to the article Schmidle wrote about Stucky in the New Yorker in 2018, borrowing entire sentences in some places. Schmidle’s personal anecdotes about his father’s experience as a Marine aviator lend credibility to his writing about the subject, but I’m not sure how much they enrich the narrative.At its core, Test Gods is a uniquely American story; a story of perseverance and determination in pursuit of a brighter future for mankind. For many years, Mark Stucky wanted nothing more than to join the ranks of the NASA astronaut corps. Instead of becoming one of many astronauts to pilot the Space Shuttle, Stucky became the first man to fly Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShip Two into space in 2018. In so doing, Stucky and his colleagues at Virgin Galactic are helping to usher in a new era of commercial spaceflight.If you want to read an authentic story of what “The Right Stuff” looks like in an era of atrophied NASA budgets and growing privatization of spaceflight, this is the book for you.

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