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Sam Shepard | Capt/Col. Chuck Yeager, Test Pilot | |
Scott Glenn | Capt. Alan Shepard, Mercury Astronaut | |
Ed Harris | Maj. John Glenn Jr. | |
Dennis Quaid | Capt. Leroy Gordon Cooper aka 'Gordo', 'Hot Dog', Mercury Astronaut | |
Fred Ward | Capt. Virgil I. 'Gus' Grissom, Mercury Astronaut | |
Barbara Hershey | Glennis Yeager | |
Kim Stanley | Pancho Barnes, Owner of Pancho's Happy Bottom Riding Club | |
Veronica Cartwright | Betty Grissom | |
Pamela Reed | Trudy Cooper | |
Scott Paulin | Capt. Donald K. 'Deke' Slayton, Mercury Astronaut | |
Lance Henriksen | Wally Schirra | |
Charles Frank | Scott Carpenter | |
Donald Moffat | Lyndon B. Johnson | |
Levon Helm | Capt. Jack Ridley/Narrator | |
Mary Jo Deschanel | Annie Glenn |
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Producer | Irwin Winkler
Robert Chartoff |
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Writer | Philip Kaufman
Tom Wolfe |
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Cinematography | Caleb Deschanel
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Musician | Bill Conti
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How the Future Began. Epic and glorious were America's dreams to master the sky and journey into space. Also epic and glorious is this landmark movie about one adventurous test pilot, seven brave astronauts and the colorful era that forged their heroism. The Right Stuff Chronicles the story of the pioneering Mercury astronauts: the first Americans to ride a primitive spacecraft solo into a mew frontier. Preceding them in the history books was the legendary Chuck Yeager, who far removed from the awesome media spotlight that would focus on the "spacemen" a decade later, became the first man to break the sound barrier piloting the fabled X-1. |
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