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What’s worse than wearing white to a wedding? Well, if you’re one of the Mercury 7 wives, wearing a bold floral print to a photoshoot where all the other women have agreed to dress plainly.

That’s what happens in Episode 3 of Disney+ series “The Right Stuff,” when Scott Carpenter’s wife, Rene Carpenter (played by Jade Albany Pietrantonio), shows up the other gals. Imagine the side-eye just before the flash.

But did it really happen? Yes, the platinum blonde Mrs. Carpenter arrived at the wives’ Mercury space capsule photoshoot wearing a sleeveless red floral dress, breaking the dress-code rules, as the other women were dressed in their assigned solid colors: pink, yellow, blue and white.

Readers can see the original photo from the shoot in question, which was done by Life magazine, here.

Rene Carpenter, who later divorced Scott Carpenter (played by James Lafferty in the Disney+ series...

On this Friday’s episode of Disney+’s The Right Stuff, the Mercury Seven astronauts are put through a gimbal rig training exercise that makes the wildest rollercoaster in the world look like a stroll through the park. The device is designed to simulate an aircraft spinning out of control, and the series’ stars were actually strapped into it in a real test of whether they could keep their stomachs in check.

“Luckily, I didn’t lose my breakfast or anything,” Jake McDorman, who plays Alan Shepard, says. “But it was a lot harder than I anticipated. I think the...

Yes, the real-life Annie Glenn did have a speech stutter, just as Nora Zehetner portrays her in new Disney+ limited series “The Right Stuff.” The wife of John Glenn, who was the first American in orbit, turned what could have been a hindrance into a lifetime of award-winning advocacy work for people with communication disorders and other disabilities.

Annie Glenn’s stutter was hereditary: Homer Castor, her father, also stuttered. The communication disorder would stay with Annie her whole life, but at age 53, she was able to greatly improve her speech via a three-week treatment course at Hollins Communications Research Institute in Roanoke, Virginia. Annie Glenn later became an adjunct professor at the Ohio State University’s speech pathology department.

Ohio State now bestows the “Annie Glenn Leadership Award” annually to a person who has displayed “innovative and inspirational work in speech/language pathology.”

In 1983, Annie Glenn received the first...

After seven seasons of playing Mike Ross on USA Network’s Suits — plus a return arc during the show’s final run — Patrick J. Adams wasn’t searching for another TV role.

“I was looking to go to sleep for about 365 days,” the actor tells TVLine with a laugh. “It’s sort of a joke, but it’s not far from the truth. I was really excited to be home and to not rush into something, to take a break. We [were] starting a family, and I’d been away from my wife [Troian Bellisario] for so long. I remember being of the mindset of,...

What a great time to be a NASA nerd and a space-geek. The globe has witnessed America’s return to space with SpaceX’s Falcon 9, and soon we will return to the Moon in the spaceship Artemis. With the Artemis program, NASA will land the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024, using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before. We will collaborate with our commercial and international partners and establish sustainable exploration by the end of the decade. Then, we will use what we learn on and around the Moon to take the next giant leap – sending astronauts to Mars.

Now Disney+ Original Series The Right Stuff about America’s first astronauts will premiere with a two-parter on Friday, October 9.

Based on the bestselling book by Tom Wolfe, the eight-episode season is an inspirational look at the early days of the U.

Updated, 7:15 Am: Disney+ has set an October premiere date for National Geographic Channel’s The Right Stuff. The period drama, starring Patrick J. Adams and Jake McDorman, will launch with a two-episode premiere on Friday, October 9. Based on the bestselling book by Tom Wolfe, the eight-episode season looks at the early days of the U.S. Space Program and tells the story of America’s first astronauts, the Mercury 7. The Right Stuff is produced by Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way and Warner Horizon Scripted Television.

Previous, May 5 Exclusive: National Geographic Channel’s upcoming series The Right Stuff will become a Disney+ original. The period drama, starring Patrick J. Adams and Jake McDorman, will premiere in the fall under the Nat Geo brand on the SVOD platform. Adapted from Tom Wolfe’bestselling nonfiction account of the early days of the U.S. space program, The Right Stuff is produced by...

Disney+ announced today that it will join Comic-Con@Home, hosted by San Diego Comic-Con, with virtual panels for three of its upcoming original titles. As part of the entirely virtual festival, Disney+ will feature the animated movie "Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Candace Against the Universe," the anthology docuseries "Marvel's 616," and the service's first scripted series from National Geographic, "The Right Stuff."

Comic-Con@Home will be held on the same dates as the previously canceled Comic-Con, July 22-26, 2020, and online attendees are encouraged to use the official #ComicConAtHome hashtag to be included in the virtual activities.

Disney+'s virtual Comic-Con@Home panels

A Look Inside Marvel's 616 on Disney+Thursday, July 23, 1:00 p.m. Pt

Marvel's 616 explores how Marvel's rich legacy of stories, characters and creators exist within the "world outside your window". Each documentary, helmed by a unique filmmaker, explores the intersections of storytelling, pop culture and fandom within the Marvel Universe.