I would rate The Right Stuff 9 out of 10 because I liked all the information given in this book. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes planes and rockets and want to know it's history because in this book they gives us some information about planes and rockets as people use them a lot in the story. It is also a good book for the people who want to know about who went to space from US for the first time. They will also get to know about those people's past. This book is also good for the people who like to read nonfiction stories as the story has happened in real life. It is about the seven astronauts for the mercury mission. It talks about what it is. It also gives us information about astronauts and pilots during that time.

The theme of this story is pushing the Envelope. This phase was used a lot in the book. This means to attempt to extend the current limits of performance and to go beyond commonly expected boundaries. This theme is show in the book by many examples like Chuck Yeager breaking the speed of sound. People going to space and orbited the earth these where all known to be impossible during that time. These examples supports the theme as it shows how people went beyond the expected boundaries and made new records. The author uses many more examples like these to tell us what the theme is.  This book is about Pilot who break different record, pilots who became astronauts for the USA. It is about their life. It talks about the mercury mission and about what happened in this mission.

Alan Shepard during the Mercury Mission

Alan Shepard on the moon.

Alan Shepard was an American naval aviator, Test pilot and Astronaut. He was born on November 18, 1923 He was the second man to go to space and the first American. He was one of the seven astronauts from the mercury mission. The rocket in which he went to space for the first time was called freedom 7.He was the 5th man to walk on the moon during Apollo 14 mission. He was the first person to hit golf balls on the moon He has been in space for more then 9 days in total including the mercury and Apollo mission's. He fought in the world war 2. He was in the navy. Severed on destroyer USS Cogswell, it was placed in the pacific ocean. After world war 2 he started working as a test pilot. HE was placed in the astronaut hall of fame.  He died in July 21, 1998 because of leukemia at the age of 74.

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Gordon cooper was an American test pilot and astronaut. He was born on march 6, 1927. He was one of the seven astronauts from the mercury mission. He was the last one to go on this mission but was in the space for the most time. He orbit space 22 times in this mission. He was the first astronaut to sleep in the mission and during the countdown. During this mission there where many problems but he successfully to manual control and got the a safe reentry. He went to space for the second time for the Gemini mission. In this mission they were in space for 8 days to make a new record for the most time in space. He was also assigned as a Back up commander for Gemini 12, Apollo 10 and Commander in Apollo 13 but was replaced by other astronauts in the end. He died in the age of 77 because of a Heart failure on October 4, 2004.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Cooper

John Glenn's picture in space.
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John Glenn was an American Marine corp, Astronaut, Test Pilot and senator. He was born on July 18, 1921 in Cambridge, Ohio. He fought in the second world war and the Korean war. He was one of the seven astronauts who were selected to be a part of the mercury mission in which US send their first astronauts to space. He was the first American to orbit the earth. He was in space for 4 hours and 55 minutes.He was inducted in the Astronaut hall of fame in 1990. He has gone to space two times in the mercury mission and STS-95 which was a space shuttle program. He was 77 year old when he went for the STS-95 mission becoming the oldest man to go to space. He was in space for 8 days and for a total of 9 days including both the mercury and STS-95 mission. After the death of Scott Carpenter he became the only man from the mercury mission to be alive at the age of 92