The Right Stuff

The Story

WHEN THE FUTURE BEGAN... THE MEN HAD It Heroes ... the first Americans in space battling the Russians for control of the heavens ... putting their lives on the line. THE WOMEN HAD IT. While Mr. ikbnderful was aloft, it tore your heart out that the Hero?s Wife, down on the ground, had to perform with the whole world watching ... The TV Press Conference: ?What is in your heart? Do you feel with him while he?s in orbit?? THE RIGHT STUFF It?s the quality beyond bravery, beyond courage. It?s men like Chuck Yeager, fastest man on earth; Pete Conrad who laughed himself out of the running; Gus Grissom who almost lost it when his capsule sank ... And John Glenn, the only space traveler whose apple-pie image wasn?t a lie.