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...Kaufman's production of Tom Wolfe's. The Right Stuff says "by golly" a lot, as in, "by golly, my kids are behind me 100 percent." Even after the Russians move ahead in the space race. Glenn still favors rather tame condemnations, as in, "darned Russians." Fellow astronaut Gus Grissom, not given to such restraint in speech, turns to Glenn and adds, "Fucking A," Glenn then pauses, and so does the movie, awaiting a response that will characterize not only The Right Stuffs John Glenn but also The Right Stuff itself. His earlier moralistic preaching forgotten. Glenn faces the others...
...Apollo program featured similar safety measures, but not all disasters can be handled so smoothly. In 1967 Virgil ("Gus") Grissom, one of the original seven Mercury astronauts, and his two crew members were asphyxiated in a launching-pad fire at Cape Canaveral...
Virgil ("Gus") Grissom died in 1967, when he and his two crew members of Apollo 204 were asphyxiated in a launching-pad fire at Cape Canaveral...
...LIFE cover, they are, from left to right and top to bottom, Lance Henriksen as Wally Schirra and Scott Glenn as Alan Shepard; Ed Harris as John Glenn, Charles Frank as Scott Carpenter and Scott Paulin as Deke Slayton; Dennis Quaid as Gordon Cooper and Fred Ward as Gus Grissom. Said Quaid: "I get to be a national hero for six months." Hardly up to the public relations performance of the True Originals. At their press conference, a reporter queried, "Could I ask for a show of hands of how many are confident that they will come back from outer...
...Right Stuff By Tom Wolfe. (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, $12.95): Remember Project Mercury? Gus Grissom? John Glenn? Tom Wolfe's passionate chronicle of America's entry into the space age, The Right Stuff, brings back the memories--or introduces the subject--of the time when America braced for the Soviet threat from the sky and celebrated the heroes who fought that intergalactic cold war. More than that, Wolfe describes the code by which these men lived, the hell-raising, ass-kicking, flag-waving brotherhood of The Right Stuff. It's an exuberant and satisfying look at previously unexplored territory...