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Sam Shepard | Chuck Yeager | |
Scott Glenn | Alan Shepard | |
Ed Harris | John Glenn | |
Dennis Quaid | Gordon Cooper | |
Fred Ward | Gus Grissom | |
Barbara Hershey | Glennis Yeager | |
Kim Stanley | Pancho Barnes | |
Veronica Cartwright | Betty Grissom | |
Pamela Reed | Trudy Cooper | |
Scott Paulin | Deke Slayton | |
Charles Frank | Scott Carpenter | |
Lance Henriksen | Wally Schirra | |
Donald Moffat | Lyndon B. Johnson | |
Levon Helm | Jack Ridley / Narrator | |
Mary Jo Deschanel | Annie Glenn | |
Scott Wilson | Scott Crossfield | |
Kathy Baker | Louise Shepard | |
Mickey Crocker | Marge Slayton | |
Susan Kase | Rene Carpenter | |
Mittie Smith | Jo Schirra |
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Producer | Robert Chartoff
Irwin Winkler James D. Brubaker |
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Writer | Philip Kaufman
Tom Wolfe |
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Cinematography | Caleb Deschanel
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Musician | Bill Conti
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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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