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"The Right Stuff" Season 2 Will Tell Untold Stories of the Space Program
What Happened: Though there was no announcement of when "The Right Stuff" Season 1 will debut on Disney+, executive producer Jennifer Davisson let us know about a potential direction for Season 2: "We chose to focus on [the Mercury program] this season, but it was a missed opportunity. Because there are these incredible untold stories within the space program … Ed Dwight was meant to be one of the first astronauts who was an African-American man …"
Our Take: Davisson also namechecked Katherine Johnson, who was spotlighted in Hidden Figures, so we’re getting a clear signal that the show is keen to get into the complexity of racial issues in 1950s/1960s America. Now we really, really need that Season 1 release date news.
Source: Comic-Con@Home "The Right Stuff" Panel
What Happened: Though there was no announcement of when "The Right Stuff" Season 1 will debut on Disney+, executive producer Jennifer Davisson let us know about a potential direction for Season 2: "We chose to focus on [the Mercury program] this season, but it was a missed opportunity. Because there are these incredible untold stories within the space program … Ed Dwight was meant to be one of the first astronauts who was an African-American man …"
Our Take: Davisson also namechecked Katherine Johnson, who was spotlighted in Hidden Figures, so we’re getting a clear signal that the show is keen to get into the complexity of racial issues in 1950s/1960s America. Now we really, really need that Season 1 release date news.
Source: Comic-Con@Home "The Right Stuff" Panel