Trailer
Cast
O-Lan Jones
Girl at Pancho's
Chuck Yeager
Fred
Kathy Baker
Louise Shepard
Royal Dano
Minister
Harry Shearer
NASA Recruiter
William Hall
The Permanent Press Corps
Edward Anhalt
Grand Designer
John P. Ryan
Head of Program
Mimi Sarkisian
New Mexico Nurse in Lobby (uncredited)
Barbara Hershey
Glennis Yeager
Darryl Henriques
Life Reporter
Michael Pritchard
Texan
John Dehner
Henry Luce
Donald Moffat
Lyndon B. Johnson
Jim Haynie
Air Force Major
David Gulpilil
Aborigine
Lance Henriksen
Wally Schirra
Kim Stanley
Pancho Barnes
David Clennon
Liaison Man
Jeff Goldblum
NASA Recruiter
Dennis Quaid
Gordon Cooper
Fred Ward
Gus Grissom
Pamela Reed
Trudy Cooper
Charles Frank
Scott Carpenter
Scott Wilson
Scott Crossfield
Eric Sevareid
Himself
Ed Harris
John Glenn
William Russ
Slick Goodlin
Mary Apick
Woman Reporter
Levon Helm
Jack Ridley / Narrator
Veronica Cartwright
Betty Grissom
Scott Beach
Chief Scientist
Scott Paulin
Deke Slayton
Mary Jo Deschanel
Annie Glenn
Scott Glenn
Alan Shepard
Sam Shepard
Chuck Yeager