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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: Rambi who wrote (65795)11/9/2004 10:21:05 PM
From: JF Quinnelly   of 71178
 
That makes me think of the book "The Right Stuff", from which the movie was made.

Some folks may have missed what Tom Wolfe meant by that phrase, or rather what that phrase meant to those who used it- it wasn't the skill to fly experimental aircraft, or the courage to climb into a space capsule- it was the ability to shrug off the violent death of close friends and to continue on with the job. Sudden death was a regular event in the test pilot community which spawned the Mercury astronauts. If that was going to bother you, you didn't have the right stuff.
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