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

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

“No bucks, No Buck Rogers.” Awesome line

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.

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

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

I am so fortunate that I grew up during this era. My dad liked westerns. I said, “Dad, I don’t want to see how you lived. I want to see how I’m going to live.” I watched sci-fi, The Jetsons and Star Trek and played with Maj. Matt Mason. And of course I watched the launches 🚀 at Cape Canaveral, where Major Nelson and Healy worked. Even saw Neil and Buzz walk on the Moon. Exciting time, and this movie says it all. October Sky is another one of the 60’s dream 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. It is a lesson in life - everything, no matter how well designed, may fail all at once and if you don't prepare for it you will pay the price.

The German engineers thought they were still designing a "self-guided missile to deliver a payload to a target." The pilots reminded them that they were now designing a "manually-controlled spacecraft to launch an astronaut to space."

This is so incorrect it hurts.

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.

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.

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

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. This is how mad he was at this design without windows.

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

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.

What a great movie. "The Right Stuff." And rightly named so. Love it. I can watch it over and over again.

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.

Love the guy playing Von Braun. Too funny.

However it actually came about, having a *window* and manual re-entry *controls* on the *spacecraft* saved astronaut *pilot* Gordo Cooper's life.

RIP FRED WARD

me building a massive rocket in ksp vs me when im actually trying to fly it

José Jiménez: "My name... José Jiménez." Ed Sullivan: "Well, now I see you have some of your space equipment with you. Uh, what is that called, the crash helmet?" José Jiménez: "Oh, I hope not."

The guy who plays the German scientist was awesome.

Damn! Those guys are so young! I forgot how old this film was.

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

No buck, no Buck Rogers!

Why do I feel that this scene never actually happened?

My daughter, who is 1.7 years old, has a bigger children's tent. All the same, our "Vostok" was several times larger.

Man.....Gus always had problems with hatches....RIP.

I didn’t realize Gene Kranz was one of the Mercury 7.

I see young Ed Harris here, and then see current older Ed Harris in the Top Gun 2 trailer. Time sucks.

A very enthusiastic and high-spirited form of intimidation.

Has Fred Ward EVER been in a movie scene where he's not just completely pissed off?

And here we are, 50 years later, calling it a capsule...

I grew up playing in Gus Grissom park in Fullerton Ca when I visited my cousins who lived nearby. 'NO bucks, NO Buck Rodgers.'

Is this where the term *SPACECRAFT* was first coined I certainly hope so

Oh man I love this scene.

incredible cast

These scene is so ridiculous

This movie is satire. Chill people. There's literally a scene where circus performers are considered by government officials to be astronauts.

Awsome movie with an awsome cast

So basically, "Uh, no. We're not doing blind leaps, and trust falls with all our lives, because you don't see a need for a window."

Crazy this was made only 20 years after the event. Thats like a movie on 9/11 coming out now.

For an inside joke they should have had Scott Paulin and Ed Harris wear work boots that had been spray painted silver. (In one of the publicity photos Slayton and Glenn were wearing them instead of the standard pressure suit boots. You can see the photo on the 'Mercury Seven' page on Wikipedia.)

Total theatrical nonsense. In reality they worked very closely with Space Task Group engineering (not headed by Germans, as that was Redstone) in design and development in order to gain complete knowledge of their systems, while offering (not demanding) their input, as well as bodies for custom seat fitting, ergonomics of controls and all other related aspects. They did it as professionals and were extremely grateful to be in the program. Bitchy attitudes would have gotten them kicked off the team.

These guys had balls the size of the moon. Just think they were going in something that you don't really control in to a place that no one really knew what to expect in untested suits. Well dam that takes some amazing COURAGE.

I liked the book and have also read a couple of astronaut autobiographies, this is in not really quite how it was but love the comedy aspect of this movie. Quad’s mimicking of Gordo’ Cooper is exceptionally good. One of my go-to feel-good movies.

On the other hand a Cosmonaut-occupant was indeed to sit there, shut up and not get in the way of the automatic systems of the capsule. This difference became really pronounced with the Apollo which was mostly pilot-controlled, including docking, vs. the Soyuz that was almost completely automated.

Reminds me of the German designed ZF transmission in my Ram. No Dipstick tube to fill/check the fluid even though ZF recommends changes 60-80k miles, and the fill plug is next the the exhaust pipe 🫠

No warp nacelles?

Hunsville Alabama is where these engineering guys were located. The Astronauts were giving them a refresher course in lain English. :)

Somehow i doubt the engineers were uncooperative.

i wonder just how close this was to the actual discussion that took place.

I loved this movie, except for the way they portrayed Gus and Betty Grissom. The man ultimately died for the program, and his memory deserves to be treated better than that.

It was already too late to put a window in Alan Shephard's Freedom 7. He had only two little port holes to look out of.

JEEZ they’re so young !!!!

"...Spaaacecfaaaft..."

Balls of steel.

It's not a capsule. It's a spacecraft. Yea!

Why are they all in pressure suits at capsule reveal?

Major bullying during the Mercury program. Don't mess with the pilot astronauts with their windows and hatches with explosive bolts. 🤣

Scott Beach, as Wernher von Braun

Those Nazi rocket engineers look so pissed off that they lost the war.

EFFING YES!!! Ladies and Gentlemen THIS is what American pilots are made from!!!

Back when going to space was sexy.

I love the guy in the backround with the big roll of paper in his chest pocket at 2:01

Fuck me, there's a movie to miss...

Glad no flatards found this video

eventhough this is pure hollywood, it was a great and hilarious scene

Capsule: this isn't even my final form!

I love how they all arrogantly fall in line behind Glenn and Cooper's lead -- they have the German guys right by the nuts. Still my favorite scene in the movie.

If it wasn’t for these this demands Gordo could’ve died in one of those missions

sure is strange how all the rocket scientist have German accents Ha I wonder what their occupation was before NASA

I didn’t know Jeff Bezos could act.

We Germans mean well- ok not always, but in this case...

I was waiting for him to say "Main Furer, I can walk!"

Man _ had forgotten Fred Ward was in this.

Mercury capsule: "It needs more windows!" Apollo lander: "It needs less windows!"

‘No hesh!’

Was that a boiler plate they made for the movie?

why are they in their space suits?

That capsule, umm.. spacecraft looks awfully small. Would we a pretty tight squeeze to stuff three astronauts (I mean pilots), in there.

Operation paperclippers say NEIN

The right stuff

I just came here from the KSP Wiki. Sooooo.. Hello!

Germans designed the capsules(sorry, spacecraft)? I thought the V2 engineers worked the boosters while Ol' Man Mcdonnel made Mercury and Gemini; and N. American made Apollo(Gunther Wendt was a German engineer, but not a V2 guy, right?)

Some of the finest acting I've ever seen 🤦‍♂️

The best time to negotiate is when the stakes are up.

How much would this movie cost to make 35 years later? A terrific movie.

but, was it used, did it matter, or was it just something the astronauts wanted for thier own sake since if remember correctly, the window on the rockets was extremely small and only used for slight comfort and for taking pictures (very important for the press)

some very young looking stars

Wir wollen ein Fenster!

The reality the mercury spacecraft was designed by McDonnell Aircraft. And they had a good relationship with the astronauts.

Is this a good movie? I like the actors and I’ve heard of it but never seen it.

Those astronauts were so rude, they were really lucky not to get shot up into space in a tin can that formerly contained peas.

Wally Schirra once said that no one ever argued with Von Braun because Von Braun was always right.

So this cap-spacecraft was designed and built in total secrecy, in a building with giant windows?

Astronaut "pilot" is the only correction I respectfully disagree with in this movie's terminology.

classic