Editing The Right Stuff (film) (section)

==Cast==
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* [[Sam Shepard]] as [[Chuck Yeager]], USAF
* [[Fred Ward]] as [[Gus Grissom|Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom]], [[USAF]]
* [[Dennis Quaid]] as [[Gordon Cooper|Gordon "Gordo" Cooper]], USAF
* [[Ed Harris]] as [[John Glenn]], [[U.S. Marine Corps|USMC]]
* [[Scott Glenn]] as [[Alan Shepard]], [[U.S. Navy|USN]]
* [[Lance Henriksen]] as [[Wally Schirra|Walter "Wally" Schirra]], USN
* [[Scott Paulin]] as [[Deke Slayton|Donald K. "Deke" Slayton]], USAF
* [[Barbara Hershey]] as Glennis Yeager
* [[Veronica Cartwright]] as [[Betty Grissom]]
* [[Jane Dornacker]] as Nurse Murch
* [[Kim Stanley]] as [[Pancho Barnes]]
* [[Pamela Reed]] as Trudy Cooper
* [[Charles Frank]] as [[Scott Carpenter]], USN
* [[Donald Moffat]] as U.S. Senator and Vice President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]
* [[Levon Helm]] as [[Jack Ridley (pilot)|Jack Ridley]], USAF; Helm also provides voice-over at the beginning and end of the film
* [[Mary Jo Deschanel]] as [[Annie Glenn]]
* [[Jeff Goldblum]] as NASA recruiter
* [[Harry Shearer]] as NASA recruiter
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* [[Scott Wilson (actor)|Scott Wilson]] as [[Scott Crossfield]], civilian test pilot for [[North American Aviation]]
* [[Kathy Baker]] as [[Louise Shepard]]
* Mickey Crocker as Marge Slayton
* Susan Kase as [[Rene Carpenter]]
* Mittie Smith as [[Jo Schirra]]
* [[Royal Dano]] as a minister
* [[David Clennon]] as a liaison man
* [[Scott Beach]] as head NASA scientist based on German immigrant [[Wernher von Braun]]
* [[John P. Ryan (actor)|John P. Ryan]] as the Head of the Manned Space Program
* [[Eric Sevareid]] as himself
* [[William Russ]] as [[Slick Goodlin]]
* Robert Beer as President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]
* Peggy Davis as [[Sally Rand]]
* [[John Dehner]] as [[Henry Luce]]
* Royce Grones as the first X-1 pilot, [[Jack Woolams]]
* [[Brigadier General]] [[Chuck Yeager]], USAF  as Fred, the bartender at Pancho's saloon
* [[Anthony Muñoz]] as Gonzales
* [[David Gulpilil]] as aboriginal man
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The following appeared as themselves in archive footage: [[Ed Sullivan]] with [[Bill Dana]] (in character as [[José Jiménez (character)|José Jiménez]]); [[Yuri Gagarin]] and [[Nikita Khrushchev]] embracing at a review, joined by [[Georgi Malenkov]], [[Nikolai Bulganin]], [[Kliment Voroshilov]], and [[Anastas Mikoyan]]; [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]; [[John F. Kennedy]]; [[Alan Shepard]] (in Kennedy footage); and [[James E. Webb]], director of NASA during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.