Nat Geo working on series Adaptation of Tom Wolfe's 'The Right Stuff'

National Geographic is developing a series adaptation of Tom Wolfe's 1979 book "The Right Stuff" in partnership with Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way and Warner Horizon Scripted Television.

The book recounts the early days of the US space program and its astronauts.

According to Variety, the first season begins in 1958, the height of the Cold War, with the Soviets leading the space race and the US launching NASA's Project Mercury.

The show is described as taking "a clear-eyed, non-nostalgic look at the lives of these ambitious astronauts and their families, who became instant celebrities in a competition that would either kill them or make them immortal."