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(Air Force Staff Sgt. Brycen Guerrero)
The incredible story of America's 
first astronauts, the Mercury Seven,

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is being retold on the Disney Plus 
original series "The Right Stuff."

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(James Lafferty)
My name is James Lafferty, and I'm a
part of the "The Right Stuff" series

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that's on Disney Plus now, and I played
Lt. Cmdr. Scott Carpenter

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of the U.S. Navy. So, he was selected to be

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one of the Mercury Seven astronauts. They

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were selected to be the first team
of pilots to really go up into space and

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to eventually, you know, orbit the earth. Once we got to

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Florida for shooting, I think it was maybe a week or two before shooting,


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we got a little classroom time
with some Navy test pilots where they

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gave us some insight into,
you know, military culture, but also the,

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you know, very specific and unique
culture of test pilot. They let us spend

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a little time around some
of these jets and talk to

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some pilots that are really
experienced in flying them,

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you know, let us sit in the cockpit so we
could get just sort of a feel for the

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whole thing. You know, for this particular project,

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being able to be in Florida,
you know, where it all really

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started, getting to, you know, go to 
Cocoa Beach and sort of

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walk the same ground that these
astronauts walked,

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 go to the Air Force base and just
kind of sit in awe of it all, you know,

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it's so expansive. You know, from the time you get

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through those security gates to
to where we were actually going, I

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think we were sitting in a van for like
10, 15 minutes, and

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most of what you're seeing is is sort of
nothing. It just looks like swampland but

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to know that, you know, it has such a
storied history, and there is, in fact,

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so much going on in terms of, you know,
 the cutting edge of aviation and

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space exploration


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was really, really exciting.