You might like to read The Right Stuff [1], the film is good too but the book goes into quite a bit of detail on how the astronauts were seen as representing th

You might like to read The Right Stuff [1], the film is good too but the book goes into quite a bit of detail on how the astronauts were seen as representing the nation. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_Stuff_%28book%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_Stuff_%28book%29