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-->'''Al Shepard:''' We want a window!

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-->'''Al --->'''Al Shepard:''' We want a window!
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-->'''LBJ:''' ISN'T THERE ANYBODY WHO CAN DEAL WITH A HOUSEWIFE?!

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-->'''LBJ:''' --->'''LBJ:''' ISN'T THERE ANYBODY WHO CAN DEAL WITH A HOUSEWIFE?!
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* When a messenger arrives to notify John Glenn that he's been selected for the astronaut program, he initially walks up to Glenn's (older, heavier, bespectacled, and generally less-handsome) coworker and asks if he's Major Glenn. The man looks back at him and dryly replies [[DeadpanSnarker "That is the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me."]]
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'''Shepard:''' What do you do around here?
'''Dee:''' [[SarcasmMode I'm a fireman]].
'''Shepard:''' Well, thank God. I'm burning up!
'''Dee:''' [without looking up] [[DeadpanSnarker That's probably just the gonorrhea talking]].

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'''Shepard:''' -->'''Shepard:''' What do you do around here?
'''Dee:''' -->'''Dee:''' [[SarcasmMode I'm a fireman]].
'''Shepard:''' -->'''Shepard:''' Well, thank God. I'm burning up!
'''Dee:''' -->'''Dee:''' [without looking up] [[DeadpanSnarker That's probably just the gonorrhea talking]].
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* The introduction to nurse Dee O'Hara, who rapidly makes it clear she won't be putting up with Shepard's bullshit when he tries to flirt with her.
'''Shepard:''' What do you do around here?
'''Dee:''' [[SarcasmMode I'm a fireman]].
'''Shepard:''' Well, thank God. I'm burning up!
'''Dee:''' [without looking up] [[DeadpanSnarker That's probably just the gonorrhea talking]].
* The looks of pure disbelief on Kraft and Gilruth's faces when, at the moment they're finally about to get an American into space, Deke Slayton reports Shepard needs to pee.
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** The specific circumstances of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Redstone_1 that particular flight]] weren't shown in the film – probably [[FreakierThanFiction because viewers would think they were making it up]].
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* The scene where Life Magazine Publisher Henry Luce learns why Gus Grissom [[DoNotCallMePaul doesn't go by his real name.]]
-->'''Henry Luce:''' Now, I want them all to meet my people who will write their true stories, Naturally these stories will appear in Life magazine under their own bylines: For example, "by Betty Grissom", or "by Virgil I. Grissom", or...

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* The scene where Life ''Life'' Magazine Publisher Henry Luce learns why Gus Grissom [[DoNotCallMePaul doesn't go by his real name.]]
-->'''Henry Luce:''' Now, I want them all to meet my people who will write their true stories, Naturally these stories will appear in Life ''Life'' magazine under their own bylines: For example, "by Betty Grissom", or "by Virgil I. Grissom", or...

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