Trailer
Cast
Ed Harris
John Glenn
Harry Shearer
NASA Recruiter
Eric Sevareid
Himself
Fred Ward
Gus Grissom
Kathy Baker
Louise Shepard
Barbara Hershey
Glennis Yeager
Veronica Cartwright
Betty Grissom
Edward Anhalt
Grand Designer
Sam Shepard
Chuck Yeager
Scott Paulin
Deke Slayton
Royal Dano
Minister
David Clennon
Liaison Man
Darryl Henriques
Life Reporter
Lance Henriksen
Wally Schirra
Charles Frank
Scott Carpenter
Donald Moffat
Lyndon B. Johnson
Scott Wilson
Scott Crossfield
John P. Ryan
Head of Program
Mimi Sarkisian
New Mexico Nurse in Lobby (uncredited)
Scott Glenn
Alan Shepard
Jeff Goldblum
NASA Recruiter
John Dehner
Henry Luce
David Gulpilil
Aborigine
Chuck Yeager
Fred
Kim Stanley
Pancho Barnes
Levon Helm
Jack Ridley / Narrator
Mary Apick
Woman Reporter
William Russ
Slick Goodlin
Pamela Reed
Trudy Cooper
Mary Jo Deschanel
Annie Glenn
Jim Haynie
Air Force Major
Scott Beach
Chief Scientist
William Hall
The Permanent Press Corps
Michael Pritchard
Texan
Dennis Quaid
Gordon Cooper
O-Lan Jones
Girl at Pancho's