Overview
Frank Corvin, ‘Hawk’ Hawkins, Jerry O'Neill and ‘Tank’ Sullivan were hotdog members of Project Daedalus, the US Air Force's test program for space travel, but their hopes were dashed in 1958 with the formation of NASA and the use of trained chimps. They blackmail their way into orbit when Russia's mysterious ‘Ikon’ communications satellite's orbit begins to degrade and threatens to crash to Earth.
Cast
- Clint Eastwood as Frank Corvin
- Tommy Lee Jones as Hawk Hawkins
- Donald Sutherland as Jerry O'Neill
- James Garner as Tank Sullivan
- James Cromwell as Bob Gerson
- Marcia Gay Harden as Sara Holland
- William Devane as Eugene Davis
- Loren Dean as Ethan Glance
- Courtney B. Vance as Roger Hines
- Barbara Babcock as Barbara Corvin