Editing The Right Stuff (film) (section)

===Box office===
''The Right Stuff'' had its [[film premiere|world premiere]] on October 16, 1983, at the [[Kennedy Center]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], to benefit the [[American Film Institute]].<ref name="Morganthau">Morganthau, Tom and Richard Manning. "Glenn Meets the Dream Machine." ''[[Newsweek]]'', October 3, 1983, p. 36.</ref><ref name="Arnold">Arnold, Gary. "The Stuff of Dreams."  ''[[Washington Post]]'', October 16, 1983, p. G1.</ref> It was given a [[limited release]] on October 21, 1983, in 229 theaters, grossing a disappointing $1.6 million on its opening weekend.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|page=1, Part VI, Calendar|last=London|first=Michael|date=October 26, 1983|title='Right Stuff' fails to soar in public takeoff}}</ref> It went into [[wide release]] on February 17, 1984 in 627 theaters, where it grossed an additional $1.6 million on that weekend. The movie went on to gross only $21.1 million in the United States and Canada. The failure of the film and ''[[Twice Upon a Time (1983 film)|Twice Upon a Time]]'' caused The Ladd Company to shut down.

As part of the promotion for the film, Veronica Cartwright, Chuck Yeager, Gordon Cooper, Scott Glenn and Dennis Quaid appeared in 1983 at ConStellation, the [[41st World Science Fiction Convention]] in Baltimore.<ref>[http://www.fanac.org/worldcon/ConStellation/w83p008.html "1983 World Science Fiction Convention."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115205725/http://www.fanac.org/photohtm.php?worldcon%2FConStellation%2Fw83p008 |date=2020-11-15}} ''fanac.org,'' 2012. Retrieved: September 5, 2012.</ref>