I like the show. It had issues. The biggest one being that it just went too fast (going from the start of Mercury to the Moon Landing in 10 episodes really doesn’t give a lot of stuff a chance to sink in). But any fan of The Right Stuff knows the wives went through a lot, and have an interesting story in their own right.
She sees, to her horror, a group of largely African American students shouting, with clinched fists, from a racist poem penned by Gil Scott-Heron entitled Whitey on the Moon.
“A rat done bit my sister Nell
With Whitey on the moon
Her face and arms began to swell
And Whitey's on the moon.”
Images by Tyrone Greene ...
Dark and lonely on the summer night.
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord.
Watchdog barking - Do he bite?
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord.
Slip in his window,
Break his neck!
Then his house
I start to wreck!
Got no reason --
What the heck!
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord.
C-I-L-L ...
My land - lord ...