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5 Fantastic Things to Watch This Weekend

By Zach Johnson The stars have aligned, as the finale of The Right Stuff is arriving on Disney+ this Friday—the same day the documentary The Real Right Stuff is debuting on the streaming service, complementing the scripted series from National Geographic. Also streaming on Friday, the One Day at Disney season finale will once again …

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5 Fantastic Things to Watch This Weekend

By Zach Johnson Whether you’re a fan of sharks or spaceships, or spades or spiders, there’s something for everyone to enjoy this weekend! ABC delivers another can’t-miss episode of Shark Tank on Friday, two nights before the game show Card Sharks returns to the network for its second season. Meanwhile, the space race continues on …

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The Inspiration Behind the Characters of Disney+’s The Right Stuff

By Jim Frye Putting a man in space—most of us don’t remember that period in history at the height of the Cold War when the United States and the Soviet Union raced neck-and-neck to put the first person in space. National Geographic’s drama series The Right Stuff, available to stream on Disney+ this Friday, is …

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5 Fantastic Things to Watch This Week

5 Fantastic Things to Watch This Week

By Zach Johnson Boost your brainpower with another installment of National Geographic’s Mind Blown Mondays, featuring two fan-favorite series that are as entertaining as they are informative. The next night, tune in for a new episode of the nonpartisan series Kal Penn Approves This Message on Freeform centered on judges. Friday brings us a batty …

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Finding the Real John Glenn and Alan Shepard in Disney+’s The Right Stuff

By Jim Frye In 1979, famed American writer Tom Wolfe turned our gazes skyward, releasing The Right Stuff, a book richly detailing the young pilots selected for NASA’s very first attempt to put men into space. These astronauts, the “Mercury Seven” as they were called, galvanized the country in the early ’60s around a shared …

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