The Right Stuff - 2020

[Push The Button]

I did not like how engineers came off in Tom’s novel.

I would rather see a series on Soviet Chief Designers. To steal a a quote:

RED GIANTS
Korolev’s time in Kolyma, the Nedelin disaster...so much to work with.

100% agree. There are so many stories to be told from the Soviet space program, heroes and achievements that many are not even aware of.

As for this series, I’m finding it difficult to stay awake. And apparently actor Eric Laden is now specializing in portraying NASA flight controllers, though at least this time he won’t get blown up.

 

[publiusr]

Most folks never knew they had a Space Shuttle too—Energia Buran

Some confuse the Nedalin disaster with N-1 explosions and the loss of Polyus.

Those were three different rockets.

R-7’s fuel, like the Saturn first stage, was old fashioned kerosene.

 

[Q2UnME]

Man, Alan Shepard can't seem to keep it in his pants... Not a flattering portrait of the man. John Glenn comes across as an egotistical, self serving boy scout. How accurate are any of these portraitials?

 

[Marc]

Man, Alan Shepard can't seem to keep it in his pants... Not a flattering portrait of the man. John Glenn comes across as an egotistical, self serving boy scout. How accurate are any of these portraitials?

Seems that Shepard managed to keep his flings a secret until Tom Wolfe's book came but his wife stuck with him even after she found out (don't think this facet made it into the movie version).

 

[J.T.B.]

Seems that Shepard managed to keep his flings a secret until Tom Wolfe's book came but his wife stuck with him even after she found out (don't think this facet made it into the movie version).

It's kind of implied in the movie when Shepard goes off on Glenn about what they do in their off duty time being their own business; he seemed to take it a little personally. In the book, much is made about the navy guys having to have social polish and respectability to move up the ranks (which is true), while the air force didn't care so much as long as you were a good flier and flight leader. And Glenn the clean marine, while also being a naval aviator, took respectability up several notches further because that was just his personality. So Shepard kept his fooling around very discreet, and expected the others to do so as well, not to let things get too flagrant or out front. But it was definitely the "Mad Men" era and it was kind of understood and even expected.

The wives in the book knew what was going on and though they didn't like it, they took some consolation in the fact that "the cookies" would never get the respect and benefits that they did as wives, as well as using it as leverage to get what they wanted as needed. Only Slayton and Carpenter would divorce.

 

[KennyB]

Man I really want to like this but damn it is SLOW paced. I guess season 1 ends with the Freedom 7 flight. At this pace it will take 5-6 seasons to cover the entire project.

 

[JoeZhang]

Someone help me out - in Episode 1 at 23.30 - what is that music?

I am absolutely sure I have heard it in a film - maybe a christopher Nolan film. Anyone able to help identify this?

 

[KennyB]

Someone help me out - in Episode 1 at 23.30 - what is that music?

I am absolutely sure I have heard it in a film - maybe a christopher Nolan film. Anyone able to help identify this?

The Everly Brothers "All I Have to Do is Dream"

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[JoeZhang]

The Everly Brothers "All I Have to Do is Dream"

Maybe the timing are slightly different on different streaming services - I am talking about the incidental music in the briefing just before the bar scene...

 

[Jim Klag]

This series couldn't be slower paced if it tried. Eight episodes to get to Shepard's flight and agonizingly slow soap operish plots. There is no dash or sense of adventure like both the book and movie had. Tom Wolfe must be turning over in his grave. It's like they got the dullest academic and a pulp fiction novelist to collaborate on the scripts for this series. The soundtrack was a huge part of the movie, but the film was still well-written and fast paced. I think I'll pass on the rest of the series.

 

[arch101]

The film zipped past too much of the story and put too much emphasis on Yeager, but this show is WAY too much Mad Men. Ep 2 had almost ZERO Mercury program stuff. Hope they pick it up a little for season 2. Mad Men fans aren’t interested in this show, space flight fans are.

 

[Marc]

The film zipped past too much of the story and put too much emphasis on Yeager, but this show is WAY too much Mad Men. Ep 2 had almost ZERO Mercury program stuff. Hope they pick it up a little for season 2. Mad Men fans aren’t interested in this show, space flight fans are.

Probably wouldn't work for casting and budget reasons but I'd love to seem the cover the main events of the Mercury missions post Grissom (such as Wally Schierra's iirc hands on re-entry) and the move on to the Gemini missions.

First U.S spacewalk, the missions with Agenas for docking practice that paved the way for the Apollo missions yet at the same times seems a largely overlooked period U.S spaceflight.

 

[Push The Button]

The film zipped past too much of the story and put too much emphasis on Yeager, but this show is WAY too much Mad Men. Ep 2 had almost ZERO Mercury program stuff. Hope they pick it up a little for season 2. Mad Men fans aren’t interested in this show, space flight fans are.

I’m a fan of space exploration, and I enjoyed the 1983 film, so I would have watched this series regardless of the quality. Having said that, I found it to be quite dull, and would fall asleep in the middle of most episodes.

Though it was close in subject matter but a little different in concept, I thought that Apple did a much better job with season one of For All Mankind.

I do hope that Stuff gets renewed for another season, maybe some lessons were learned and it will improve. I’m also hoping to see some good stories about Gemini, our forgotten space program.