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right stuff
right stuff (rÌt stùf)
noun
Informal.
Essential or requisite qualities,
such as self-confidence, courage, stability, dependability, organizational
skills, and technical knowledge, appropriate for application in a given
field or situation: "Passengers as well as pilots need the right stuff"
(Jonathan Dahl). "We have the right stuff- a liberal arts, undergraduate,
teaching-centered institution of higher education" (Robert A. Spivey).
Early on, there are a few
bar scenes that take place at the Happy Bottom Riding Club. The bar used
to be located just on the edge of Edwards AFB located on the western edge
of the Mojave
Desert, about 90 miles north of Los
Angeles.. At one point, Yeager (Sam Shepard), and the old man behind
the bar exchange a look.The old man is the real Chuck Yeager. In other
scenes he has some lines as well. Chuck Yeager was the first man
to fly
faster than the speed of sound on October 14, 1947
in a Bell X-1.
The first man to orbit the earth gets a little push
from the Australian
Aborigenes
- film _The Right Stuff_ (vhs/ntsc)
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faces: Dennis Quaid as Gordon
Cooper, Scott Glenn as Alan Shephard, Fred Ward as Gus Grissom, Ed
Harris as John Glenn, Sam Shephard as Chuck Yeager, Lance Henrikson, Barbara
Hershey as Glennis Yeager, Veronica
Cartwright as Betty Grissom, Jeff
Goldblum and Harry Shearer (of _This Is Spinal Tap_) plays recruiters,
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(note: Harris plays Glenn, Glenn plays Shephard, Shephard
plays Yeager)
-
604 track _Man
To Ray_ MP3
by Juno
Reactor off of _Transmissions_ on Nova Mute
- samples: "He knows the moon,
he knows the stars. He knows the milky
way..." - Australian
Aborigine played by David Gulpilil (_Walkabout_
(1971) to Gordon
Cooper (Dennis Quaid) - this was also sampled in the ambient
track _Microgravity_ MP3 (320k)
by Biosphere off of _Microgravity_ CD on Apollo (1992); "god,
it sure looks beautiful. Sometimes I wish I could stay up here"
- from the film _The Right Stuff_
-
604
track _The Right Stuff_ MP3 (224k)
by Joujouka
off of s/t 12"x3
on Matsuri
Productions
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sample of countdown taken from the launch failure
sequences
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