Past Is Prologue
Why Can’t I Watch ‘The Right Stuff’?
An analysis of astronauts, the French revolution, and the future of space exploration
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13 min readNov 30, 2020
As part of the near-constant onslaught of new things releasing everywhere all the time, Disney+ recently released a new adaptation of The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe’s seminal 1979 saga about the Mercury Seven and the sociopolitical context that buoyed them to greatness. The Right Stuff was originally adapted into a three-hour film epic in 1983 that remains widely regarded as one…
