Here are the real-life facts behind the series The Right Stuff

A gravitydefying story The Right Stuff a documentaryseries set to launch on Disney Hotstar Premium shuttles into the realities of one of the firstever missions of NASA At its early stages of being six months old in 1959 NASA chose a team for an incredible project that would change the scope of space and manrsquos travel into the depths of the worlds beyond our ownView this post on InstagramThe space race starts u00f0u009fu009au0080NOWu00f0u009fu009au0080 Stream the first two episodes of TheRightStuffSeries todayA post shared by Disney Hotstar Premium disneyplushotstarpremium onOct 9 2020 at 1107am PDTPremiering on 9th October on Disney Hotstar Premium viewers will catch the story based on true events that displays Americarsquos ambitious journey into space and how they began a program that created celebrities in a lifechanging competition between ambitious astronauts and their families for money stardom and immortality Ahead of the premiere of the series herersquos a few real events that the story is based onIt is based on the bestselling book by Tom Wolfe The Right StuffThe book extensively captured the true stories of the pilots engaged in the Project Mercury Mission Wolfe had interviewed test pilots the astronauts and their wives to unearth the stories and the missionsrsquo challengesThe series is a TV adaptation of the 1983 movie of the same nameThe eightepisode season an adaptation of the 1983 released movie The Right Stuff by Philip Kauffman is an inspirational look at the early days of the US Space Program and the iconic story of Americarsquos first astronauts the Mercury 7It is based on NASArsquos Project MercuryThe mission Project Mercury was a NASA program that launched the first Americans into space Seven astronauts were chosen for the mission and they were called the lsquoMercury 7rsquo These seven original American astronauts were Alan Shepard Scott Carpenter Gordon Cooper John Glenn Gus Grissom Wally Schirra and Deke SlaytonAlan Shepard became the first American to enter space in 1961Played by Jake McDorman in the series Alan Shephard was the first American to enter space in 1961 He named his spacecraft Freedom 7 The 15minute flight went into space and came back down Ten years later Shepard also journeyed to the Moon as the commander of Apollo 14The Mercury 7 flew separate space craftsGus Grissom was the second astronaut after Shephard to fly in Project Mercury followed by John Glenn who was the first American to orbit Earth in his spacecraft Friendship 7 Scott Carpenter later flew on Aurora 7 with Wally Schirra taking up the mission next on his Sigma 7 Gordon Cooper flew on the last Mercury mission where he spent 34 hours circling Earth in his capsule Faith 7 Deke Slayton was part of the Project Mercury astronauts but had to fly on a separate mission in 1975 owing to his poor healthThere were other test flights to make the Project Mercury mission saferA rhesus monkey Sam and two chimpanzees Ham and Enos flew in Mercury capsules to make the Mercury 7rsquos mission safer NASA had developed flights prior to the mission to ensure the basic safety measures were covered so that they could launch man into space with the mission This was the first lesson in learning how to enable orbiting the universe and flying a spacecraftSo grab your space suit and launch into space with The Right Stuff only on Disney Hotstar Premium starting 9th October 2020Keep scrolling to read more newsCatch up on all the latest entertainment news and gossip here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps MidDay is now on Telegram Click here to join our channel middayinfomedialtd and stay updated with the latest news