The Right Stuff by BarkerC

The Right Stuff stemmed from Wolfe's 1973 article "Post-Orbital Remorse", an assessment of the Apollo 17 mission based on an assignment given to him by Jann Wenner for this magazine.

Wolfe explains the "Pygmalion in reverse" of virtually all airline pilots adopting the "poker hollow [blank] drawl" of Chuck Yeager. What state's name, Yeager's home state, correctly fills in the [blank] above?

In the film, this member of The Band plays Jack Ridley, Chuck Yeager's friend and flight engineer on the "Glamorous Glennis" Bell X-1 test flight, as well as serving as the film's narrator.

At Edwards Air Force Base in California, Pancho's Fly Inn was better known by what four word nickname, as seen in the book and film.

TWO ANSWERS: The two unnamed NASA recruiters in the film are played by these actors, one of whom would guest star on ~The Simpsons~ episode "A Fish Called Selma" with the series regular (even though their characters did not interact in that episode.)

In the book, Wolfe explains that the Mercury 7 astronauts were able to push for more control over flying the capsule in part because they were able to leverage the coverage promised in their $8,000 a year contracts with what news magazine to force NASA to make them "pilots".

The actress who played Annie Glenn and the film's director of photography were a married couple who would go on to have a pair of daughters that would play title roles on FOX shows in the 2010s. What is the shared last name?

Later historical investigation revealed that the premature detonation of the Liberty Bell 7's explosive hatch bolts was mechanical failure and not human error on the part of what astronaut?

Late in the film, Vice President Johnson welcomes the astronauts to Houston, the home of the new Manned Spaceflight Center with a cookout at the Sam Houston Coliseum, capped off by what legendary burlesque dancer performing her ostrich feather dance for the gathered audience, nearly 30 years after making her name at the 1933 World's Fair?

Before the flight of both the Bell X-1 and the NF-104A, Yeager asks Ridley for a stick of this gum, a pepsin flavored chewing gum considered to be the lucky gum of pilots--because the Pepsin flavor had antacid qualities which helped quell nausea.

This man won an Oscar for his Best Original Score for the film, even though it is largely an adaptation of Holst's ~The Planets~ in part because director Philip Kaufman used it as a temp track and the composer was brought in very late to replace John Barry in the scoring the film.

The film ends by noting "But on that glorious day in May 1963, [BLANK] went higher, farther, and faster than any other American - 22 complete orbits around the world; he was the last American ever to go into space alone. And for a brief moment, [BLANK] became the greatest pilot anyone had ever seen." What member of the Mercury 7 flew the Faith 7 on the final Mercury mission, filling in the blanks above?