@ Spartan9299 John Glenn was such a hero after this flight JFK and NASA did not want him to fly again for fear of an accident happening. Of course he flew again on the shuttle in 1998.
I still remember my parents renting this movie on our brand new VCR in 1984 when I was 12 years old --- made me wanna become an astronaut, but I went to college for finance instead
As a Danish immigrant to America, this is one of the reasons I chose to be in the United States Navy. God Bless America, I will always remain loyal, the protesters will not sway me. My Viking ancestors are smiling on America.
@@85doc..... just a few weeks ago, an American company sent four civillians into space, all without the help of NASA, flew them farther than we've been in space since 1972, and this same company SpaceX, is now building a reusable Moon lander, and is the only entity on Earth making hard, realistic efforts to get people to Mars. Countless other companies in the US and abroad are launching or designing rockets. No, you must be right, America never does this anymore.
@@Shadowkey392 "people back then had no idea what was awesome" Good god, that is just about the most downright stupid Generation Z (as in zilch-for-brains) comment yet. But don't bother with the lame "okay Boomer" retort. You're better off flushing out all the Dunning-Kruger sludge from your system... By the way, the original SW trilogy was good storytelling. The crap sequels that Disney produced for your viewing were pathetic, but that's what today's audiences accept as awesome.
Glenn and .NASA KDPT JFK'S PROMISE AND LIFTE AMERICAAWAY FROM THE VIET NAM WAR. GOD SPEED, JFK..MY FIRST PRESIDENT.WHO SITS WITH GOD. WHO MADE EVERYTHING, AND MADE EVERYTHNG POSSIBLE...AND BEAUTIFUL..LIKE MY TRULY BELOVED.
It literally brings tears to my eyes. It's perfect. And then straight into the accelerando passage from Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity, also perfect, and I don't know the music as Glenn reaches orbit, but that's perfect too. But the Mars climax for the engine ignition is stunning.
My mother was originally from Ohio. Whenever John Glenn or Niel Armstrong were on TV she would tear up and put her hand over her chest to steady herself and say to us again, "He was from Ohio".
What these guys did was amazing, one of the greatest accomplishments of mankind. The Right Stuff is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of all American films. It rivals and in some ways surpasses The Godfather 1&2. I watched this in 1983, and the theater went nuts when John Glenn made it back. And we all knew he survived. That's testimony of this film's quality...
You got that right! The right stuff!i met them all as a child at a BBQ in Texas. I'll never ever forget it. They were my heroes. They were like god's to me!. I'll die with this memory and hope one day meet them all in heaven. God bless all of them America. God bless America. The greatest country in the world!. As i believe.God bless those brave men all true heroes.
As someone who disagreed with many of this views as a politician, I give him all the credit in the world for having the Guts for getting into that unholy rocket and taking the chance of a lifetime. I strongly agree with you post. You've got guts John Glenn, BIG TIME!
One of the more bizarre facts of my own life is that I saw this at age 13 with my dad in 1983, and then decades later a woman who had a bit part, whom I saw on the screen for a half second in this film, would become a great friend of mine. The scene is the Texas BBQ hosted by LBJ. Gordo Cooper's wife is in the food line and there is an elderly woman right next to her. That elderly woman became my friend many years later. She lived into her 90s. Her daughter and I schemed in 2013 to get her to a local 30th anniversary screening, attended by Dennis Quaid (Cooper) and the woman who played Cooper's wife (sorry, can't remember her name) I went up to that actress and asked her to come over and see my friend. Crazy, I actually.spoke just for a moment to that actress, and I had them take a photo together. All the scenes that actress was in in this film and I, age 13, had no idea I would one day see her face to face, along with Quaid. RIP, Ida Lee. You were and are the best.
God Bless John Glenn, for you were a noble & selfless patriot, a spectacular fighter pilot, record breaking flying daredevil, fearlessly pioneering astronaut, an indomitable Scottish warrior, a proud family man, an upstanding, dedicated politician, a class act all the way along with being a true, courteous gentleman & a real, amazing yet humble hero, one who never forgot his small town roots, you make me proud to be an American 🇺🇲🇺🇲🙏🙏
He went back up in 1998. Hard to believe just ONE of the Space Shuttle Orbiter's 3 main engines had more thrust than the entire Atlas rocket that placed him in orbit in 1962.
I always wondered why they didn’t give him command of this mission. But he was out of the loop for over 35 years and was given a Mission Specialist role to test the effects of aging in space. I remember sneaking away from work to run over to a Target store to watch that launch. I was risking disciplinary actions but I had to see it live. One of the greatest Shuttle missions ever.
Just think of Allan Shepherd. Flies the little Redstone in '61. Then ten years later rides the Saturn V which blew everything away with regards to power and thrust.
I was very fortunate to be an usher in a movie theatre when this first came out and I got to see that scene very often. Over time, that scene never lost it's magic and beauty and it hasn't now decades later.
Dear Earth, You are so beautiful and I love you so much. Thank you for providing the food, water and air that I need to survive. In return I will promise to keep your oceans, rivers and soil clean and unpolluted. Have a great day. Love, Houdini 774.
2:35 until the end of the video : what made me fall in love with space. Still today, that scene, Glenn overwhelmed with awe at a marvel that transcends his existence, gives me fucking chills. One of the best space sequences ever made. Bill Conti's music helped a bit.
I really like the theme that plays after Glenn was given the go-ahead for seven orbits; to me, it kind of symbolizes all the things that's so darn great about flying... ^_^
Goodbye Fred Ward! You sure did do some great films. Thanks for all the good flics! Godspeed! If ya can, put in a good word to St. Pete for all of us fans.
As the capsule flies over the cloudscape of Earth, strings tranquillo interpolate Conti’s Main Theme for “The White Dawn”, which imbues the scene with a calming serenity. "White Dawn" was written by Henry Mancini.
I lived thru the era of astronauts I didn't miss a thing. Was so exciting. The night of the moon landing the nation and world were glued to the television. These are true heroes. Because of them we have the knowledge we have today.
You not the only one. That music was a segment taken from "The White Dawn", also directed by Philip Kaufman. There is a White Dawn Suite, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Oh7PtA6LReg.html
Yep, about the middle of the symphony. Haven't seen the movie but its about eskimos, I guess. Kaufmann directed both movies. Beautiful piece from Mancini.
The heady days of the 1980s was driven to produce such optimistic films of why we should remain optimistic about our future. Today Hollywood is a joke. I know because I live there.
I grew up during those days . My son was 6 months old when "Eagle" landed . My grandson was 13 when our last Space Shuttle flew . We were ashamed as Russia took our people to and from the ISS . Now we all watch Space X do what NASA only dreamed of doing !
I've been two feet from Friendship 7, in the Smithsonian, it's the size of a laundry hamper, anyone who was crazy enough to climb in that thing and go into orbit in it, you're more of a man than I am, and I'm an American man.
John Don Diana Persy Glen USA flag to each American through Jimmy Carter years, from Bobby Bruffett Seniors oldest son John Robert Bruffett Junior of Branson Missouri America, awesome air and space craft, neat USA flag!!!!!!
Yes Holst Planets are represented in this clip. The tune you are seeking is completely different. Phillip Kaufman, the movies director also directed a movie called....The White Dawn released in 1974. Incredibly it is about a eskimo tribe and the music for John Glenn's orbit is used here again from The White Dawn. Hard to believe but true. For whatever reason it works very nicely. Love the scence and the music.
1903 - wright brothers first flight. 1961 glenn orbits earth. before 1970 usa lands on moon. what technological wonders and advancements were made in this short time span.
This movie was supposedly a financial bomb but it is still a great movie in my opinion. I guess the reason for me feeling that way is because I was in the 8th grade for the first Mercury launch with Alan Shepard and thusly through high school for Gemini and the 2nd corps of astronauts. I had just returned to the states from overseas in the Navy in 1969 in time for the first moon landing. I was enamered with the entire space program from my youth through to the end of Apollo. I was never a big fan of the shuttle program feeling it was mis-managed and too costly for what we were getting. It was simply playing in the sand box. Sadly it proved to be far too costly. I was not sad when they pulled the plug on it.
they took so many liberties with the facts. First of all, they managed to prove that explosive hatches could "just blow". second, Wally Shira actually blew his hatch to see what would happen. due to some very bad design work, the plunger to blow the hatch cut through his glove and actually cut his hand. they were all built the same so if Gus had blown the hatch, he would have cut his hand. third, every space flight since Glenn has seen the "fireflies". There was nothing mystical about them. they are just frozen urine ejected from the spacecraft through the waste dump system. Watch Apollo 13, Jim Lovell refers to them as the constellation u-rine
he confirmed them....by using his waste dump equipment and noticing that the fireflies emerged at the same time. again, watch Apollo 13 as Jim activates capsule waste disposal gear. you will see the fireflies. it's frozen piss.
They are called Vernier thrusters and are used to control the alignment of the booster during flight. These days, the same thing is achieved by the main engines being able to gimbal.
First man to OFFICIALLY orbit the Earth. According to the International Aeronautics Association, for a record or achievement to count?...the pilot had to LAND with his craft. Neither Gagarin nor Titov (or any other Vostok "pilot") did that. So....Shepard was first in space, officially...Glenn first in orbit, officially.
The accuracy in the film is pretty good, on the whole I am impressed they got the space suits right and the capsule interior. The only issue I have with this scene is they show Glenn sitting in the capsule with no hoses connected to his space suit. How is he breathing? The Mercury spacecraft wasn't pressurized. The astronauts were sitting in vacuum from liftoff to reentry, they couldn't remove their helmet or gloves. There should be a big white hose to his helmet to provide him with oxygen and a smaller tube for cooling. Also, the window in the capsule wasn't quite that big. See the original film footage to compare: Classic NASA Film - Friendship 7 - #2
Actually it was pressurized,he was able to eat some food in orbit, although it was not on the same level as what we have for astronauts and cosmonauts now.
All US manned spacecraft were pressurized, just not to sea level (14.5 psi). Because the cabin atmosphere was pure oxygen, a pressure of about 5.5 psi was more than enough for normal O2 saturation.
@Ciao1984 Sections from Holst's "The Planets" during the launch (don't know which orchestra performed this version.) I think the piece while Glenn orbits the Earth is from Bill Conti as part of the original soundtrack.
Some interesting observations about the editing of the launch footage for this movie. This is actually footage from three or four different launches blended together At :18-:20, it’s actually a static test firing on the launch pad. At :48-:59 with the atlas soaring past the clouds it’s actually a Scott Carpenter mercury flight from May 1960 to 3 months after the John Glenn flight. The clouds increase the sensation of speed. At 1:04, The footage with the rocket fins and Cape Canaveral rotating below is from a “Little Joe” unmanned scout rocket. The bit at 1:35 Is actually from a failed atlas launch. What you’re saying is the escape tower firing to pull the mercury capsule off the Atlas rocket (MA-3 in 1961) just before the range safety destruct system blew it up. Which makes it all the more ironic when you see a Mercury-Atlas launch still flying across the sky with its contrail forming at about 1:49. In fact it may actually be the same footage you see at the very end of the movie with the end titles on it. Anyway, it’s pretty clever editing of film to tell the story.
@Mannex17 Yes. In order: Mars, the Bringer of War; Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity; and lastly is Neptune, the Mystic. After that, it's a piece by the film's composer
