At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to enter space. However, the road to making history brings momentous challenges.

Sam Shepard
as Chuck Yeager

Scott Glenn
as Alan Shepard

Ed Harris
as John Glenn

Dennis Quaid
as Gordon Cooper

Fred Ward
as Gus Grissom

Barbara Hershey
as Glennis Yeager

Kim Stanley
as Pancho Barnes

Veronica Cartwright
as Betty Grissom

Pamela Reed
as Trudy Cooper

Scott Paulin
as Deke Slayton
Filipe Manuel Neto
**Overall, it's a good movie about the start of the space race.** The space race was one of the aspects that marked the intense rivalry between the USA and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. There was the notion that space could be a battleground or a zone of influence, as colonial territories...