First Man and, there is a wealth of movies and TV series orbiting around the U.S. space program. Disney+'s , an eight-episode drama series based on Tom Wolfe's book of the same name, is the latest retelling of America's first group of elite astronauts, the Mercury 7, and the ups and downs they and their families faced as they race against the clock to rocket into the deep unknown.
For alum Patrick J. Adams, who plays former U.S. Senator and NASA astronaut John Glenn on the series, his obsession with space began in childhood when his father handed him a copy of Wolfe's book.
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