Disney+ is going to space: “The Right Stuff,” the streaming service’s first scripted National Geographic original series, is inching closer to its fall premiere, and the series’ cast unveiled a new clip of the show at Comic-Con on Saturday.Per Disney, here’s the show’s official synopsis:“At the height of the Cold War in 1959, the Soviet Union dominates the space race.
To combat a national sentiment of fear and decline, the U.S.
government conceives of NASA’s Project Mercury, igniting a space race with the Soviets and making instant celebrities of a handful of the military’s most accomplished test pilots.
These individuals, who come to be known as the Mercury Seven, are forged into heroes long before they have achieved a single heroic act.
The nation’s best engineers estimate they need several decades to make it into outer space.
They are given two years.The
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