Grueling physical and mental tests select the Mercury Seven astronauts, including John Glenn of the United States Marine Corps, Alan Shepard, Walter Schirra and Scott Carpenter of the United States Navy, as well as Cooper, Grissom and Slayton; they immediately become national heroes.

With Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid. The U.S. space program's development from the breaking of the sound barrier to selection of the Mercury 7 astronauts, from a group of test pilots with a more seat-of-the-pants approach than the program's more cautious engineers preferred.

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“The Right Stuff” gives itself the freedom to move around in moods and styles, from a broadly based lampoon of government functionaries to Yeager’s spare, taciturn manner and Glenn’s wonderment at the sights outside his capsule window.

Mar 16, 2002 · Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson fumes in his car when John Glenn‘s wife Annie, a shy stutterer, won’t let him into her house along with the network crews. “You need more than speed records in this day and age,” a program publicist explains.

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John Glenn. Actor: Frasier. John Glenn was an Officer of United States Marines with the rank of Major before chosen to become part of the Mercury 7 program. He was awarded five Distinguished Flying Crosses. Made record setting Coast to Coast flights in the late 1950s.

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