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