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The Right Stuff
The reviews of the new Disney series based on Tom Wolfe’s book are mediocre at best. They all point to the 1983 movie as setting a high standard to the incredible story Wolfe documented.
I found this on one of the reviews and it makes me choke up every time I watch it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCbl...ature=emb_logo Enjoy all you space nerds.
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We're watching and enjoying it.
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I loved that movie too... book was even better!
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I started watching it. Couldn't make it through the first episode.
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Yes, I loved both the book and the movie, too.
My dad spent his entire career as a physicist working for NACA/NASA starting in 1948. I was always interested in jets and rockets and just absorbed all the stuff that was going on without even trying. I didn't know very much about what Chuck Yeager was doing, but I certainly was up on what was happening with the astronauts. I enjoyed the YouTube video that SprintBob linked. That was fun to review all those highlights of the movie again. - Glenn
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the space program I could get my hands on. I was reading The Right Stuff at the same time that work sent me on a trip to California, my first flight in many many years. I was reading as the plane was taking off... it was a very dramatic part of the book, someone at the test range was in the middle of "augering in". I looked out the window (I was kind of over the wing) and some big (normal) afterburnerish thing (ida know) flopped down on the rear of the engine THE ENGINE'S COMIN' APART WE'RE GOIN' DOWN! -Mike |
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I always felt really bad about all those young test pilots that lost their lives while trying to find out where the edge of the envelope actually was. - Glenn
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