That’s about where we are at this point. We are enjoying it too…though I’ve cautioned the family that it is a history drama…not necessarily accurate in all respects. I’m sure the families of the astronauts portrayed have some opinions of the series… 
Their portrayal of Grissom and Schirra as the country bumpkin duo is an interesting take…I’m not sure how accurate that is, but it makes for entertaining television.
Yeah I am slightly puzzled by that as well. Still, it’s a fun watch either way.
The run is over now, no word on if they’re doing more episodes or not.
It was a diverting little show.
I hope they do. We finished it a few days ago and I was pretty happy with it
I liked it as well.
It’s by no means a documentary, but gives a plausible insight into the lives of the seven and their families.
Here’s hoping for many more seasons…
How can I watch it without subscribing to Disney? I am dying to see it. Love the movie.
I’d suggest subscribing to Disney for one month. You can then binge watch The Right Stuff and Mandelorian. After that cancel until next year. 
Yeah, Disney+ is I think $6/month? The amount of stuff you could get through in one month makes it silly to skip.
I regularly sign up and then cancel again CBS and HBO and Hulu and Apple just when there’s stuff there I want to see. I only keep Amazon and Netflix year-round. Well, Disney as well now, because I have kids and we got this great pre-release deal for 3 years at like $4/month.
Im in Qatar, I will try to get it.
Looks like it took awhile to get to you… 
VERY cool though!
I was -10 years when it was mailed…
Especially if it’s authentic.
Before I entered the auction for the signature I contacted Chris Spain who specialize in Astronaut Autopen signatures and he said it doesn’t look autopenned. John Glenn Autopen Patterns
I’m going to send it to Steve Zarelli, who authenticates astronaut signatures. He has been the go-to guy at the collect-space forums, for years.
Submit your item / Fees — Zarelli Space Authentication
He did a preliminary check of the pictures and said that the signature is probably authentic, but he needs the actual item for a better analyzis.
Late to the party but just finished watching it.
I…wasn’t that impressed. It honestly felt like the space program’s version of Top Gun with the slew of psychological problems given to the characters, and interpersonal conflicts that look more befitting of an all-girls high school than a group of professional aviators.
Unfortunately, unlike Top Gun, this was a fairly accurate portrayal of actual events. Not completely, of course, and naturally the drama was probably emphasized to make it more interesting to watch than a documentary.
Did Al and John really butt heads as strongly as shown? Not sure. I know they did, just not the extent.
Yeah…just as most movies are a compressing of action to make them interesting, so too was the compression and perhaps amplification of whatever strife existed between the Mercury 7. Having been around pilots all my life…we are an obnoxious bunch and I have no trouble imagining that at least some of that drama wasn’t somewhat realistically depicted. Things like Alan Shepard standing on the edge of the VAB daring Glen to push him off seem over the top…but I found it entertaining enough… 
Hold up, what now? VAB wasn’t started until 1963, and wasn’t completed until '66. Well after Glenn left NASA and began running for office.
grumble I need to hurry up and watch this series, obviously.
The whole letter incident was exaggerated to an extreme. John wrote one letter. To Bob. Not multitudes of letters sent out to multiple people. The exaggeration is way over the line for the sake of drama, and there was quite a bit of it. Some of it doesn’t even make sense, too. Like the crash story with Gordo and Grissom. If Cooper had lied about conducting a pre-flight check and then crashed an aircraft, wouldn’t he have been court martialed? Or at least washed out? Upon research I found the crash wasn’t even Gordo’s fault, so why did the screenwriters even throw that in there?
Aside from historical stuff, one thing that I didn’t particularly like was the message the show gave in the end. I don’t know if it was intentional or not, but I distinctly got this message of achievement just to impress others and demoralize the competition, or just to prove others wrong, instead of achievement out of genuine, intrinsic desire. It was a recurring theme through the latter half, probably starting with the Christmas episode with Shepard’s relationship with his father, to Scott when he got demoted, and a smattering of other scenes. Everyone seemed so…maladjusted and damaged.
There is an effect, well-known to historians, which seems to apply to all periods:
Pieces of art depicting historical events usually say more about the time they were created in than about the time the events happened in.
I guess that’s true here as well.
The hairstyles definitely do.
Oh…I assumed it was the VAB - it could very well have just been a large hangar…
