The Right Stuff

How the future began.

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 and Wally Schirra.

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“The other film I'd have to point to is The Right Stuff. I screened a print of it for the crew before we started because that's a film that not enough people have seen on the big screen. It's an almost perfectly made film.”

Christopher Nolan

Director, Producer, Writer

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