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 SlaytonSusan Kase
Rene CarpenterMittie Smith
Jo Schirra
Royal Dano
Minister
David Clennon
Liaison Man
Jim Haynie
Air Force Major
Jeff Goldblum
NASA Recruiter
Harry Shearer
NASA Recruiter
Scott Beach
Chief ScientistJane Dornacker
Nurse MurchAnthony Munoz
Gonzales
John P. Ryan
Head of Program
Darryl Henriques
Life Reporter
Eric Sevareid
Himself
William Russ
Slick GoodlinDrew Letchworth
The Permanent Press CorpsChristopher P. Beale
The Permanent Press CorpsRichard Dupell
The Permanent Press Corps
William Hall
The Permanent Press CorpsJohn X. Heart
The Permanent Press CorpsEd Holmes
The Permanent Press CorpsJack Bruno Tate
The Permanent Press Corps
Mary Apick
Woman ReporterRobert Beer
Dwight D. EisenhowerErik Bergmann
Eddie HodgesJames Brady
Aide to Lyndon B. JohnsonKatherine Conklin
Woman TV ReporterMaureen Coyne
WaitressTom Dahlgren
Bell Aircraft ExecutiveJohn Lion
Bell Aircraft ExecutivePeggy Davis
Sally Rand
John Dehner
Henry LuceRobert Elross
Review Board PresidentDrew Eshelman
Assistant ScientistRobert J. Geary
Game Show M.C.Royce Grones
1st X-1 Pilot
David Gulpilil
AborigineAnthony Wallis
Australian DriverKaaren Lee
Young WidowSandy Kronemeyer
Cocoa Beach GirlFrankie Di
Cocoa Beach Girl
Michael Pritchard
TexanEdward Corbett
Texan
O-Lan Jones
Girl at Pancho'sMark Todd
Astronaut TraineeAllen Gebhardt
Astronaut Trainee
Chuck Yeager
Fred
Mimi Sarkisian
New Mexico Nurse in Lobby (uncredited)
Released
en
$27,000,000.00
$21,500,000.00
- #based on novel or book
- #nasa
- #politics
- #cold war
- #answering machine
- #pilot
- #u.s. air force
- #space travel
- #flight
- #historical figure
- #astronaut
- #space race
- #test pilot
- #1940s
- #1950s
- #1960s
- #sound barrier
- #space program
- #astronauts
Reviews
**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 t