The Right Stuff1983

[The seven Mercury astronauts are being shown their spacecraft.]

Gordon Cooper:
Uh, where are you putting the window?

German Scientist #1:
Window? There is no window.

Gus Grissom:
No window? What about the hatch?

German Scientist #1:
The hatch?

Gus Grissom:
Yeah, the hatch. We need a hatch with explosive bolts that we can open ourselves.

German Scientist #1:
I think there is something you do not understand. This is the final form of the capsule. No hatch.

Deke Slayton:
What if the automatic controls went out?

German Scientist #1:
Backups, checks, etcetera. This would not happen.

Deke Slayton:
I said, what would happen if it did?

Scott Carpenter:
The pilot would have to fly it back.

German Scientist #2:
This is the way it is.

John Glenn:
You know, I wonder how the press is going to feel about this.

German Scientist #2:
The press? What does the press have to say about this?

German Scientist #1:
Yeah, what do they have to say about it?

Gordon Cooper:
You boys know what makes this bird go up? Funding makes this bird go up.

Gus Grissom:
That's right. No bucks, no Buck Rogers.

Gordon Cooper:
And, uh, the press over there, they want to see Buck Rogers.

Deke Slayton:
And that's us. Buck Rogers.

John Glenn:
You see, those fellas over there, they've been making us out as the seven finest, and bravest pilots in all America. And if a story were to come out in the press that we were not being allowed to fly as pilots...

Alan Shepard:
We want a window.

German Scientist #2:
Uh, there could maybe be in future capsules, be a window, right here.

Gus Grissom:
No, that's where the hatch with explosive bolts goes.

German Scientist #1:
The hatch with the explosive...? Yeah. There could be a hatch with explosive bolts on the capsule.

Alan Shepard:
That is a spacecraft, sir. We do not refer to it as a "capsule". Spacecraft.

German Scientist #1:
Yeah. The hatch with explosive bolts on the... spacecraft. There. And there will be pitch and yaw thrusters which will enable the astronaut occupant-

Deke Slayton:
The pilot. "Astronaut occupant"?

German Scientist #1:
Yeah, the astronaut... pilot to have some... To have... control of the re-entry procedures.

John Glenn:
Thank you. we appreciate it. You wouldn't mind if we had the press over here take a few photos of us by our spacecraft now, would you?