It covers the breaking of the sound barrier by Chuck Yeager to the Mercury 7 astronauts, showing that no one had a clue how to run a space program or how to select people to be in it. Thrilling ...

The public was only told about the mission in June 1948. Yeager's success was later immortalised in the Tom Wolfe book The Right Stuff, and a subsequent film of the same name. From his early years ...