Cast
In order of screen credits:
- Sam Shepard as Col. Chuck Yeager, USAF
- Scott Glenn as Capt. Alan Shepard, USN
- Ed Harris as Maj. John Glenn, USMC
- Dennis Quaid as Capt. Gordon Cooper, USAF
- Fred Ward as Capt. Gus Grissom, USAF
- Barbara Hershey as Glennis Yeager
- Kim Stanley as Pancho Barnes
- Veronica Cartwright as Betty Grissom
- Pamela Reed as Trudy Cooper
- Scott Paulin as Deke Slayton, USAF
- Charles Frank as Scott Carpenter, USN
- Lance Henriksen as Wally Schirra, USN
- Donald Moffat as Senator (later Vice President) Lyndon B. Johnson
- Levon Helm as Col. Jack Ridley, USAF / Narrator
- Mary Jo Deschanel as Annie Glenn
- Scott Wilson as Scott Crossfield
- Kathy Baker as Louise Shepard
- Mickey Crocker as Marge Slayton
- Susan Kase as Rene Carpenter
- Mittie Smith as Jo Schirra
- Royal Dano as Minister
- David Clennon as Liaison Man
- Jeff Goldblum and Harry Shearer as the NASA recruiters sent to find astronaut candidates.
- Jane Dornacker as Nurse Murch
- John P. Ryan as Head of 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 1st X-1 pilot, who was Jack Woolams
- General Chuck Yeager as Fred, the bartender at Pancho's
- Anthony Munoz as Gonzales
The following real people also appeared in archive footage in uncredited cameos: Ed Sullivan with Bill Dana (playing his character José Jiménez). Yuri Gagarin and Nikita Khrushchev are seen embracing at a review, with Georgi Malenkov, Nikolai Bulganin, Kliment Voroshilov and Anastas Mikoyan in attendance. Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy are also seen.
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