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unusual facts about The Right Stuff


The Right Stuff

Right Stuff, a defunct Japanese video game production company


DC: The New Frontier

The storyline draws inspiration from the comic books and films of the period, as well as both the novel and film The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe.

Mercury-Redstone 3

The Mercury-Redstone 3 mission was dramatized in the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon episode "Can We Do This?" (starring Ted Levine as Alan Shepard), as well as in Tom Wolfe's book The Right Stuff, and Philip Kaufman's movie The Right Stuff based on the book.

Philip Kaufman

His movies have adapted novels of widely different types – from Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being to Michael Crichton’s Rising Sun; from Tom Wolfe’s heroic epic The Right Stuff to the erotic writings of Anaïs Nin’s Henry & June.


see also

Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center

A replica of the X-1 flown by Chuck Yeager, Glamorous Glennis, used in the filming of The Right Stuff

Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D

Kevin Pollak as Director (voice) portrayed Joe Shea in From the Earth to the Moon and the voice of Pres. Eisenhower in The Right Stuff

Mary Jo Deschanel

The next year after acting in The Right Stuff, Deschanel played Betty Fernandez, the remarried former wife of the astronaut Dave Bowman (played by Keir Dullea), in the film 2010: The Year We Make Contact.

Michael Uhlmann

Dr. Uhlmann is a frequent contributor to the Claremont Review of Books, most recently with the articles, “The Supreme Court v. the Constitution of the United States of America”, and “The Right Stuff”, a panegyric of the life, writings, and talent of William F. Buckley, Jr..

O'Neal Compton

Harts of the West (1993) (TV series) - (episode "The Right Stuff")