Range safety officer Roy Hutmacher (Joshua Ritter), seated at a console to Kraft's left, announces he is going to send the destruct command to avoid the vehicle from impacting a populated area, but hesitates after Kraft questions his call. Are you sure?"Ĭhris Kraft (Eric Ladin) is presiding over Mercury Mission Control when, just seconds into a launch, the rocket goes awry. Warning: What follows contains spoilers for the episode "Single Combat Warrior." Skip ahead to the end of the article if you only want to read about the real space history portrayed on screen. As my father would have said, 'You've got yourself a show!'" Alexandra Wolfe said after seeing the first episodes of "The Right Stuff." 16) on the Disney+ premium streaming service, borrows the phrase for its title, "Single Combat Warrior." The eight-part series is based on Wolfe's book and he signed off on the Appian Way and Warner Horizon Television production before his death in 2018. The third episode of National Geographic's "The Right Stuff, which debuted Friday (Oct. they were risking their lives for their country, for their people, in 'the fateful testing,'" Wolfe wrote. They would not be going into space to do actual combat. "The men chosen for this historic mission took on the archaic mantles of the single-combat warriors of a long-since-forgotten time. In his 1979 bestselling book "The Right Stuff," journalist Tom Wolfe wrote about the Mercury 7 astronauts as being the last of the single-combat warriors.
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