<Ul> <Li> Fred Ward as Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, USAF </Li> <Li> Dennis Quaid as Gordon Cooper, USAF </Li> <Li> Ed Harris as John Glenn, USMC </Li> <Li> Scott Glenn as Alan Shepard, USN </Li> <Li> Sam Shepard as Chuck Yeager, Colonel, USAF </Li> <Li> Lance Henriksen as Walter "Wally" Schirra, USN </Li> <Li> Scott Paulin as Donald K. "Deke" Slayton, USAF </Li> <Li> Barbara Hershey as Glennis Yeager </Li> <Li> Veronica Cartwright as Betty Grissom </Li> <Li> Jane Dornacker as Nurse Murch </Li> <Li> Harry Shearer and Jeff Goldblum as the NASA recruiters sent to find astronaut candidates </Li> <Li> Kim Stanley as Pancho Barnes </Li> <Li> Pamela Reed as Trudy Cooper </Li> <Li> Charles Frank as Scott Carpenter, USN </Li> <Li> Donald Moffat as U.S. Senator and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson </Li> <Li> Levon Helm as Jack Ridley, USAF and the narrator </Li> <Li> Mary Jo Deschanel as Annie Glenn </Li> </Ul> <Li> Fred Ward as Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, USAF </Li> <Li> Dennis Quaid as Gordon Cooper, USAF </Li> <Li> Ed Harris as John Glenn, USMC </Li>

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