The Right Stuff (1983)


Sam Shepard             Chuck Yeager
Scott Glenn             Alan Shepard
Ed Harris               John Glenn
Dennis Quaid            Gordon Cooper
Fred Ward               Gus Grissom
Barbara Hershey         Glennis Yeager
Kim Stanley             Pancho Barnes
Veronica Cartwright     Betty Grissom
Pamela Reed             Trudy Cooper
Scott Paulin            Deke Slayton
Charles Frank (II)      Scott Carpenter
Lance Henriksen         Wally Schirra
Donald Moffat           Lyndon B Johnson
Levon Helm              Jack Ridley
Mary Jo Deschanel       Annie Glenn
Scott Wilson            Scott Crossfield
Kathy Baker             Louise Shepard
Mickey Crocker          Marge Slayton
Susan Kase              Rene Carpenter
Mittie Smith            Jo Schirra

Directed by:            Philip Kaufman
Produced by:            Irwin Winkler, James D. Brubaker, Robert Chartoff


NASA recruits seven test pilots, training them to become astronauts for the Mercury Space Program in an 
attempt to surpass the Russian space program.

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By flying higher and faster than any other man had ever dared before, Chuck Yeager set the pace for a 
new breed of hero. Those that had just one thing in common...THE RIGHT STUFF.