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The Right Stuff - (1983)

Philip Kaufman
PG Drama • 193 min
A chronicle of the original Mercury astronauts in the formation of America's space program: Alan Shepherd, the first American in space; Gus Grissom, the benighted astronaut for whom nothing works out as planned; John Glenn, the straight-arrow 'boy scout' of the bunch who was the first American to orbit the earth; and the remaining pilots: Deke Slayton, Scott Carpenter, Wally Schirra, and Gordon Cooper.
Philip Kaufman
PG Drama • 193 min
A chronicle of the original Mercury astronauts in the formation of America's space program: Alan Shepherd, the first American in space; Gus Grissom, the benighted astronaut for whom nothing works out as planned; John Glenn, the straight-arrow 'boy scout' of the bunch who was the first American to orbit the earth; and the remaining pilots: Deke Slayton, Scott Carpenter, Wally Schirra, and Gordon Cooper.
How the future began.
cast

  1. Scott Glenn

    Alan Shepard

  2. Scott Wilson

    Scott Crossfield

  3. Scott Beach

    Chief Scientist

  4. Ed Harris

    John Glenn

  5. Jeff Goldblum

    NASA Recruiter

  6. Dennis Quaid

    Gordon Cooper

  7. Levon Helm

    Jack Ridley / Narrator

  8. Kim Stanley

    Pancho Barnes

  9. Scott Paulin

    Deke Slayton

  10. William Russ

    Slick Goodlin

  11. Fred Ward

    Gus Grissom

  12. Jim Haynie

    Air Force Major

  13. John P. Ryan

    Head of Program

  14. David Clennon

    Liaison Man

  15. Darryl Henriques

    Life Reporter

  16. Barbara Hershey

    Glennis Yeager

  17. Sam Shepard

    Chuck Yeager

  18. Chuck Yeager

    Fred

  19. Donald Moffat

    Lyndon B. Johnson

  20. Veronica Cartwright

    Betty Grissom

  21. Pamela Reed

    Trudy Cooper

  22. Charles Frank

    Scott Carpenter

  23. Lance Henriksen

    Wally Schirra

  24. Kathy Baker

    Louise Shepard

  25. Royal Dano

    Minister

  26. Harry Shearer

    NASA Recruiter

  27. William Hall

    The Permanent Press Corps

  28. Mary Apick

    Woman Reporter

  29. John Dehner

    Henry Luce

  30. David Gulpilil

    Aborigine

  31. O-Lan Jones

    Girl at Pancho's

  32. Mimi Sarkisian

    New Mexico Nurse in Lobby (uncredited)

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