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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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