Tom Wolfe's book on the history of the U.S. Space program reads like a novel, and the film has that same fictional quality. It covers the breaking of the sound barrier by Chuck Yeager to the Mercury 7 astronauts, showing that no one had a clue how to run a space program or how to select people to be in it. Thrilling, funny, charming and electrifying all at once.
Dennis Quaid | Gordon Cooper | |
Ed Harris | John Glenn | |
Scott Glenn | Alan Shepard | |
Sam Shepard | Chuck Yeager | |
Barbara Hershey | Glennis Yeager | |
Lance Henriksen | Wally Schirra |
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