I love “The Right Stuff” although (of course) it could not measure up to Tom Wolfe’s book. Great to see Gordon Cooper (RIP) get the attention he deserved, although my fave scenes were at the beginning about Yeager.
Love the Right Stuff. Inspired me to read Tom Wolfe. In a strange display of my own personal weirdness I didn’t get around to actually READING Right Stuff until a good 20 years after seeing the movie. Read all of Wolfe’s other stuff, picked up new books the minute they came out, just never got around to reading the book that spawned the movie that made me a fan of his. Until I spotted it in a used book store one day and realized that silliness.