Playwright, Director and Actor Sam Shepard Passes Away at 73

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40. You're most welcome....

Like I said, I've loved that movie since I was a kid. I can only imagine how inspiring it was for someone who had experienced the space race first hand, just knowing how much it inspired me!

And yeah, Ed Harris is John Glenn, Fred Ward is Gus Grissom, and Dennis Quaid is Gordo Cooper and on and on...but Sam Shepard's portray of Yeager was, to me, the soul of the movie. For what it's worth, I had the pleasure of meeting the real Chuck Yeager as a teenager, the thrill of my life at that time....had him sign a package of Beeman, which he thought was hilarious.