Top billed cast

1. 

   Sam Shepard

   Chuck Yeager

2. 

   Scott Glenn

   Alan Shepard

3. 

   Ed Harris

   John Glenn

4. 

   Dennis Quaid

   Gordon Cooper

5. 

   Fred Ward

   Gus Grissom

6. 

   Barbara Hershey

   Glennis Yeager

7. 

   Kim Stanley

   Pancho Barnes

8. 

   Veronica Cartwright

   Betty Grissom

9. 

   Pamela Reed

   Trudy Cooper

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Reviews

A review by Filipe Manuel Neto

Written by Filipe Manuel Neto on 2023-07-20

**Overall, it's a good movie about the start of the space race.**

The space race was one of the aspects that marked the intense rivalry between the USA and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. There was the notion that space could be a battleground or a zone of influence, as colonial territories had been decades before, and that the nuclear threat made it urgent to dominate space. That's why the Mercury Program was born, responsible for the first suborbital and orbital flights carried out by the USA.

Directed by Philip Kaufman, the film is very good and very well made, even if, at times...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$27,000,000.00

Revenue
$21,500,000.00

Keywords

• based on novel or book
• nasa
• politics
• cold war
• answering machine
• pilot
• u.s. air force
• space travel
• based on true story
• flight
• historical figure
• astronaut
• space race
• test pilot
• 1940s
• 1950s
• 1960s
• sound barrier
• space program
• astronauts