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Angst Dissonance: Grissom's prolonged attempt to prove he's not a "squirming hatch-blower."
Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: The astronauts and their wives all stand together to protect John Glenn's wife, a shy woman who stutters, from being in a televised meeting with LBJ.
A truly awesome film soundtrack -- And no soundtrack album was ever released. What were they THINKING?
It may have something to do with the fact that the main theme's similarity to Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto teeters on the ragged edge of plagiarism.
Tchaikovsky is in the public domain.
Harsher in Hindsight: The lines "You know what makes this bird go up? Funding makes this bird go up.", and "No bucks, no Buck Rogers.", are painful now that NASA is at a standstill after the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011.
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