The Right Stuff: X-Vehicles and Spacecraft Then and Now October 20, 2008

'The Right Stuff' delves into the lives of the seven astronauts chosen for Project Mercury, our nation's first manned space-flight project which was announced by NASA 50 years ago this October. This group of rarely-seen images gives readers and other aerospace enthusiasts a chance to see photographs, technical drawings and renderings of X-vehicles and space vehicles from The Right Stuff era and beyond.