The Right Stuff

[SprintBob]

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.

[Lkristians]

We're watching and enjoying it.

[fazool]

Originally Posted by SprintBob

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.

That 1983 movie was incredible, soooooo I guess it is a standard to measure against

[Kerbie]

Originally Posted by fazool

That 1983 movie was incredible, soooooo I guess it is a standard to measure against

I loved that movie too... book was even better!

[Methos1979]

I started watching it. Couldn't make it through the first episode.

[Glennwillow]

Originally Posted by Kerbie

I loved that movie too... book was even better!

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

[hubcapsc]

Originally Posted by Glennwillow

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

I went through a pre-internet phase where I read every book and magazine about
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

[Glennwillow]

Originally Posted by hubcapsc

I went through a pre-internet phase where I read every book and magazine about
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

Well, that would be unnerving! Fortunately, passenger aircraft go through a lot more hoops than an experimental fighter during the early stages of testing where somebody is more likely to "auger in."

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