In his monumental investigative piece from 1995, a longtime New Yorker contributor told Ledbetter, “the closest I ever got to a person of color was a young white fact-checker with dreads.”
“Ten years after the American moon landing — 20 since Sputnik 1 — astronauts and space-race lore have receded enough into the past to warrant rethinking. Tom Wolfe tells the early space story as if it were myth, and it is.”
