Mercury Capsule Without a Window.m4v 

Bruh, they had to pick a villain and they chose the engineers lol

This clip is totally Hollywood. In reality, all the Astronauts took part in designing all parts of the space craft.

People ask why did the US stop going to the moon, easy they ran out of tame Nazis.

“No bucks, No Buck Rogers.” Awesome line

As others have stated this is a very condensed and satirical version of the multiple technical discussions and negotiations that occurred between the Mercury 7 pilots and the rocket designers. It goes back to that old saying a picture is worth a thousand words. This is how you condense a thousands words into every look and gesture

Watched this clip and then realized that a little more than a decade after this movie was made Ed Harris plays Gene Krantz in Apollo 13 trying to get the crew home safely.

Why do the astronauts behave like they bully George McFly everyday?

Not accurate, but there is a bit of storytelling going on here - Gordo Cooper asks about a window - And On Mercury 9 he needed to realign the spacecraft manually using star positions. Gus Grissom asks about a hatch with explosive bolts, and lost his spacecraft at sea when the hatch blew out, and Scott Carpenter asks about controls, and he later manually flew his reentry when the automated systems failed. Although a completely fictional scene, the writers are cleverly hinting at the future.

This is so incorrect it hurts.

If this film was made today half of the scientists would be women and 3 of the astronauts would be refugees from third world nations.

"What if we made the background press noise REALLY loud, so you can't hear any dialogue?"

I am so fortunate that I grew up during this era.

What i really love in this scene is the difference between pragmatists and blind faith in technology as exhibited by the engineers. The engineers just assume that they thought of everything, included backups and such but real life has taught the pilots to expect anything and that the person inside the plane/spacecraft should be in control at all times or be able to take control back from the machine at any point.

The German engineers thought they were still designing a "self-guided missile to deliver a payload to a target."

Why did these scientists have to be such design Nazis on this?

Scott Glenn, Dennis Quiad, Fred Ward, Ed Harris, Lance Henriksen..crazy cast!

That's amazing that the actor for Grisham was so well cast that I could tell who it was supposed to be from the thumbnail without even looking at his name tag.

Some say that Ed Harris was so mad with the fact that the module had no windows that years later, he became Flight Director at NASA and took part of the Apollo 13 mission to bring the boys back to Earth, and I kid you not, using the windows as a dead reckoning instrumment to steer the thing back in the original path.

WVB had nothing to do with the capsule. He and his team were the rocket men in Huntsville, AL developing the Saturn series of boosters. Still a funny scene though. Astronauts worked with the engineers. The Gemini capsule was called the Gus Mobile due to Grissom’s close involvement with its interior design.

This is still my all time favorite movie. I understand it was a satire, but I loved that they actually went into detail about the Mercury flights and got the important aspects of the missions themselves correctly while keeping a narrative correct about what denotes the right stuff.