What is The Right Stuff?

Those who have it don’t want to talk about it. The lucky few able to push beyond the envelope and live to tell the tale have “the right stuff.”

“Any fool can put his hide on the line and throw away his life in the process. The idea is to be able to put your hide on the line — and then to have the moxie, the reflexes, the talent, the experience, to pull it back in at the last yawning moment — and then be able to go out again the next day and do it all over again — and, in its best expression, to be able to do it in some higher cause, in some calling that means something.” Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff 1979