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5.9/10   155 votes
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Chris Bremble (writer)
John Palmer (story)
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27 August 2000 (USA) more
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He built a rocket to honor his father, he never counted on becoming a hero.
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A troubled 17-year-old Todd Baker restores a Mercury Redstone rocket as a science project with the help of his ex-astronaut grandfather... more | add synopsis
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I hope NASA's really not in this bad of shape more (9 total)

Cast

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Robert Wagner ... Gus Baker
Marilu Henner ... Meg Baker

Ryan Merriman ... Todd Baker

Danielle Fishel ... Sarah Miller

John Finn ... Wyatt Claybourne

Matt Winston ... Mr. Lake
Bill Timoney ... Pete Baker
Frederick Coffin ... Mitch Greer (as Fred Coffin)
Duane Lamb ... Himself
Taryn Reif ... Jen Karsten
Brandon Tyler ... Vic Henry
Cory Pendergast ... Jason Jones

Clayton Landey ... Colonel Vincenze

Joel Polis ... Colonel Mitchell
Alan Bean ... Himself
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The Mercury Project (USA) (MIFED title)
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3 out of 4 people found the following comment useful.
I hope NASA's really not in this bad of shape, 28 February 2001
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Author: silverinsanity2001 from LA, CA

Let's just say that cable channels designed specifically for "kids" or "family" obviously don't have the first clue as to what either want. Case in point the Fox Family Network and their film, "Rocket's Red Glare." I guess that to whoever it mattered that a story about a boy traveling to space to save astronaunts sounded like a great idea.

But did anyone happen to read the script before they shot it? I'm 16, the target age for this network, and this film was SO VERY DUMB! It insults the intelligence of everyone - including my ten-year old sister. At the crucial point in the film, when the boy hands the astronauts something to save the day, the lead kid, played by Ryan Merrimen, opens the hatch of the capsule; my sister, all of 10, says, "you can't open those hatches in space - it'll never close and the kid will burn up during re-entry!"

She's 10 and she new more than the writer and director.

Anyway, this was pathetic. Not only dumb, but also the acting was bad. Not very good anyway you cut it.

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