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(Air Force Staff Sgt. Brycen Guerrero) The incredible story of America's first astronauts, the Mercury Seven, is being retold on the Disney

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Plus original series "The Right Stuff." I'm Staff 
Sgt. Brycen Guerrero, and I sat down with some of

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the actors and production team about what it took 
to tell the story right. Carl Pascarell served in

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the Navy in the 1980s and used his experience 
as a military aviator to consult on the series,

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helping it to be as accurate as possible. 
(Carl Pascarell) They asked me to comment

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on aviation-related things: Terminology, visual 
effects, things like that. And, uh, the sorts of

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things I would comment on -- and I have to say they 
were great -- There wasn't a whole lot to say. I was

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very picky about what I saw. I assumed that people 
like me would be watching it and pick those same

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little things up if I didn't say something about 
them. So, the little things, like when they showed

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the instrument panel of the jet aircraft flying 
around, the airplane certainly wouldn't have been

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dispatched that way, so they changed that. The 
configuration in the markings on the aircraft

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were accurate to the period. The 1958, '59 era at 
Edwards Air Force Base, those aircraft with those

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markings actually existed there. So, I told them 
to make sure that anything that somebody would

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pick apart about that's not the way that it was, 
we changed or made sure that was the way it was.