Right Stuff, The (1983) - (Movie Clip) No Buck Rogers

Right Stuff, The (1983) -- (Movie Clip) That Guy!

Watching Ed Sullivan during their mostly comic astronaut recruiting trip, the government guys (Harry Shearer and Jeff Goldblum) meet Marine pilot John Glenn (Ed Harris) and Navy flier Alan Shepard (Scott Glenn), in Philip Kaufman's The Right Stuf, 1983.

Right Stuff, The (1983) -- (Movie Clip) What's That Sound?

Dropped from a B-29, Chuck Yeager (Sam Shepard) piloting the X1, in director Philip Kaufman's dramatization of the official breaking of the sound barrier, October 1947, Yeager's wife (Barbara Hershey) and pals (William Russ, Kim Stanley) observing, early in The Right Stuff, 1983.

Right Stuff, The (1983) -- (Movie Clip) Archie And Jughead

Early in the astronaut selection process, the head nurse (Jane Dornacker) instructs the trainees (Dennis Quaid, Lance Henriksen, Scott Paulin, Fred Ward, Scott Glenn and last, Charles Frank and Ed Harris) in a lung capacity test, in Philip Kaufman's The Right Stuff, 1983.

Right Stuff, The (1983) -- (Movie Clip) Did I Ever Let You Down?

The first vignette with the first future astronaut, Gordon Cooper (Dennis Quaid) and wife Trudy (Pamela Reed) arriving Edwards Air Force Base, 1953, in The Right Stuff, 1983, from the Tom Wolfe book.