Ever since his father handed him a copy of Tom Wolfe’s seminal book “The Right Stuff,” Patrick J. Adams has been in love with the idea of going to space.
As a young teenager, Adams devoured Wolfe’s retelling of how a scrappy new federal agency called NASA recruited seven military pilots in the late 1950s to be the first American men to travel into space — known as the Mercury Seven.
He subsequently read everything else he could about the space race, in print and online, not to mention watching the Oscar-winning 1983 feature adaptation of Wolfe’s book starring Ed Harris and Scott Glenn.
And now? “If I had the money to put my down payment on a Virgin Galactic flight, I would do it immediately,” Adams says. So, when the actor, fresh from his.
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