Trailer For Netflix's Mercury 13 Which Tells The Story of The First Women Who Trained to Go To Space
A couple of years ago I found and read a book called The Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight. As soon as I read it, I thought that it needed to be adapted into a movie or TV series. It tells the fascinating true story of the first women ever to go through the training to become astronauts. They were doing everything that the men were and they were fully qualified to go to space, but in the end, it didn't happen.
Netflix has released the first trailer for a new documentary that will tell the inspiring story of these 13 women who trained so hard only to have their dreams of going to space shut down by Nasa:
On April 9, 1959, Nasa introduced their first astronaut class of all men, Mercury 7, to the world. This is the story of the 13 women who...
Netflix has released the first trailer for a new documentary that will tell the inspiring story of these 13 women who trained so hard only to have their dreams of going to space shut down by Nasa:
On April 9, 1959, Nasa introduced their first astronaut class of all men, Mercury 7, to the world. This is the story of the 13 women who...
- 4/13/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Premiering on Netflix April 20, 2018 is the documentary Mercury 13.
On April 9, 1959, Nasa introduced their first astronaut class of all men, Mercury 7, to the world. This is the story of the 13 women who were just as deserving of their place in space.
Mercury 13 is a remarkable story of the women who were tested for spaceflight in 1961 before their dreams were dashed in being the first to make the trip beyond Earth. Nasa’s ‘man in space’ program, dubbed ‘Project Mercury’ began in 1958. The men chosen – all military test pilots – became known as The Mercury 7. But away from the glare of the media, behind firmly closed doors, female pilots were also screened.
Thirteen of them passed and, in some cases, performed better than the men. They were called the Mercury 13 and had the ‘right stuff’ but were, unfortunately, the wrong gender. Underneath the obsession of the space race that gripped America,...
On April 9, 1959, Nasa introduced their first astronaut class of all men, Mercury 7, to the world. This is the story of the 13 women who were just as deserving of their place in space.
Mercury 13 is a remarkable story of the women who were tested for spaceflight in 1961 before their dreams were dashed in being the first to make the trip beyond Earth. Nasa’s ‘man in space’ program, dubbed ‘Project Mercury’ began in 1958. The men chosen – all military test pilots – became known as The Mercury 7. But away from the glare of the media, behind firmly closed doors, female pilots were also screened.
Thirteen of them passed and, in some cases, performed better than the men. They were called the Mercury 13 and had the ‘right stuff’ but were, unfortunately, the wrong gender. Underneath the obsession of the space race that gripped America,...
- 4/10/2018
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
While “Hidden Figures” explored the progress of black women behind the scenes as the U.S. launched the first man into space, the Netflix-produced documentary “Mercury 13” probes another struggle for inclusion taking place at the same time — the attempt by several woman to make the cut as astronauts. Unfolding as a series of tests in 1958 as Nasa prepared for Project Mercury, the experiments on the eponymous 13 women have received far less exposure than the stories surrounding the Nasa excursions themselves, but this straightforward, informative documentary provides an efficient historical revision, arguing that the bracing stories of the first men to enter space aren’t complete without an acknowledgement of the women stuck on Earth.
An engaging blend of modern-day interviews and archival footage, “Mercury 13” complicates the traditional narrative of triumph surrounding the Mercury missions of the ‘60s and their culmination with the moon landing. The surviving members...
An engaging blend of modern-day interviews and archival footage, “Mercury 13” complicates the traditional narrative of triumph surrounding the Mercury missions of the ‘60s and their culmination with the moon landing. The surviving members...
- 4/9/2018
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Netflix will attempt to preempt Amazon’s planned narrative miniseries on a group of Kennedy-era, aspiring female astronauts — “Mercury 13” — with a documentary of the same name. The Netflix offering features interviews with pilots who underwent physical and psychological testing in 1961 as part of a privately-funded secret program. The program was not Nasa sanctioned, however, and opposition from orbit-bound John Glenn and others prevented the women’s training from being recognized as legitimate.
While Netflix’s project has flown mostly under the radar, Deadline reported in November that “The Post” co-writer Liz Hannah would adapt Martha Ackmann’s 2003 memoir, “The Mercury 13: The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women and the Dream of Space Flight” for its rival streaming service. Hannah will be the Pascal Pictures-produced Amazon series’ showrunner and executive producer. With her Freckle Films banner, Oscar-nominated actress Jessica Chastain was once slated to produce yet another Mercury 13 account,...
While Netflix’s project has flown mostly under the radar, Deadline reported in November that “The Post” co-writer Liz Hannah would adapt Martha Ackmann’s 2003 memoir, “The Mercury 13: The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women and the Dream of Space Flight” for its rival streaming service. Hannah will be the Pascal Pictures-produced Amazon series’ showrunner and executive producer. With her Freckle Films banner, Oscar-nominated actress Jessica Chastain was once slated to produce yet another Mercury 13 account,...
- 4/9/2018
- by Jenna Marotta
- Indiewire
"I want to be up there, that's part of me!" Netflix has launched an official trailer for a documentary titled Mercury 13, made by filmmakers David Sington (In the Shadow of the Moon, The Fear of 13) & Heather Walsh. This doc profiles women who were tested in 1961 for spaceflight, but had their dreams dashed when only men were chosen to become astronauts. On April 9, 1959, Nasa introduced their first astronaut class of all men, Mercury 7, to the world. This is the story of the 13 women who were just as deserving of their place in space. I'm sold already based on that pitch alone. I'm sure I'm not the only one thinking, "I didn't know anything about these women?" Perhaps that's the way Nasa wanted it to be, but now we get to learn their story. This looks like a great doc to watch when it's out. And I'm a big fan...
- 4/9/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Canadian documentary festival Hot Docs has added 17 additional special presentations.
They include McQueen, Ian Bonhôte’s documentary about fashion designer Alexander McQueen, and Steve Loveridge’s Matanga / Maya / M.I.A., the Sundance world premiere about British rapper and record producer M.I.A. that has been picked up for the UK by Dogwoof.
Other highlights in the programme include Liz Garbus’s The Fourth Estate, a look into how The New York Times covered the first year of the Trump presidency, and Mercury 13, the story of Nasa’s first female astronaut training programme.
The full selection from Hot Docs,...
They include McQueen, Ian Bonhôte’s documentary about fashion designer Alexander McQueen, and Steve Loveridge’s Matanga / Maya / M.I.A., the Sundance world premiere about British rapper and record producer M.I.A. that has been picked up for the UK by Dogwoof.
Other highlights in the programme include Liz Garbus’s The Fourth Estate, a look into how The New York Times covered the first year of the Trump presidency, and Mercury 13, the story of Nasa’s first female astronaut training programme.
The full selection from Hot Docs,...
- 3/13/2018
- by Adam Weddle
- ScreenDaily
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