ON DEMAND CHOICE: The Right Stuff

Every Friday, a new episode of this impressive US drama about the Mercury Seven astronauts

arrives on the on demand service Disney+. Here’s our guide to the eight-part show… What’s it about? In 1959, the channel, and is based on the same US lagged far behind the Soviets Tom Wolfe book as the 1983 film in the space race, and The Right of the same name. It also has Stuff is the story of how Nasa’s the kind of budget that’s required first astronauts – the Mercury to re-create both the era and Seven – were made. The most the dramatic flight scenes. famous of these ‘star voyagers’ If you like this, try… Apollo 13 is Second World War fighter pilot (rent on Amazon, Sky), Away

John Glenn (Suits star Patrick J. (Netflix), Capricorn One (My5), Adams, centre, front right), but First Man (Netflix), For All the show follows all seven as they Mankind (Apple TV+), Gravity grapple with both the training and (Amazon), Hidden Figures

their new celebrity status – and (rent on Amazon, Apple TV, Sky), not all handle the latter well. Interstellar (Sky/now TV), Mars It’s worth watching… If you like your drama (Netflix, Sky/now TV), The First (buy on Amazon, to be firmly rooted in history – this show was Sky), The Martian (Netflix), The Right Stuff

originally made for the National Geographic (1983 film, rent on Amazon, Google Play).