Directed by: Philip Kaufman
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Ed Harris, Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn
Other mistake: When Yeager and his mate go to the Starfighter, the plane has no ladder to reach the cockpit.
Continuity mistake: Astronauts demand a window in Mercury capsule. When they are inside the capsule the window is trapezoid but when we see an external view of Mercury-Redstone on the launchpad just before the launch, the window is circular.
Dwight D. Eisenhower: The first American into space is not going to be a chimpanzee. I want test pilots.
Trivia: An obvious reference to the news media being an annoying swarm by the sounds of swarming locusts in the background whenever the media shows up.
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