![]() "Certainly there was not the kind of in-fighting or envy that was portrayed in the movie."Īmong the readers that Wolfe reached with his book (and the movie it inspired) were future NASA astronauts who on Tuesday took to Twitter to share their appreciation. ![]() "I do not think the movie accurately reflected the book, or the people involved in the Mercury program, including me," Glenn said in 1996. Wolfe, himself, did not approve of some of the creative liberties director Philip Kaufman took for the 1983 film. Glenn and the other astronauts were quick, though, to draw a distinction between what Wolfe had written and how the book was adapted for the silver screen. ![]() "Wolfe's book was accurate in many respects," said John Glenn, who in 2016 became of the last of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts to die. Scott Kelly displays the cover of Tom Wolfe's "The Right Stuff" on his iPad aboard the International Space Station in 2016. ![]()
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