The Right Stuff

At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to enter space. However, the road to making history brings momentous challenges.

• Bill ContiOriginal Music Composer
• Philip KaufmanScreenplay
• Philip KaufmanDirector

• Sam ShepardChuck Yeager
• Scott GlennAlan Shepard
• Ed HarrisJohn Glenn
• Dennis QuaidGordon Cooper
• Fred WardGus Grissom
• Barbara HersheyGlennis Yeager
• Kim StanleyPancho Barnes
• Veronica CartwrightBetty Grissom
• Pamela ReedTrudy Cooper
• Scott PaulinDeke Slayton
• Charles FrankScott Carpenter
• Lance HenriksenWally Schirra