Film Lesson "The Right Stuff"

The film lesson "The Right stuff" was based on the history of the United States and the Soviet Union during the “Space Race”. They completed each other to see who would develop the first rocket ship to make it to space. "The Right Stuff" was about the test pilots who are the astronauts and there first attempts in the United States at spaceflight. When Russia sent the first satellite into space, America was infuriated. We wanted to win this race and by them putting the first satellite they looked better than us. The United States needed something more powerful, but putting a person in space was to risky, so instead we decided to send out a monkey into space. Russia decided to take the risk and send a person. In the beginning The Russians were winning the competition because, there were 3 different activities. Russia was the first one to complete 2 activities than the Americans. They launched the first satellite and the rocket. At the end we won the space race because we were able to send the first man to the moon. Russia was a communist country and the United States was Capitalist. Some scenes that will help me remember the cold war event was when Russia and the U.S were competing against each other and when the U.S broke the record of the sound barrier. This scene was important because it showed the frustration of the US trying to break the sound barrier, and also our reaction when we were able to actually break it. They didn’t want the press to write a report on it so that the Russians wouldn’t get ahead of them. Another Scene was when the US wanted to be the first ones to go to space and they got seven of the best pilots to go to space. In order for them to go to space they had to be strong, smart, and healthy. This scene was painful and horrifying because they had to do a lot of events and experiments to see if they were good enough to be astronauts. From all the people that tried out only seven people were able to complete the examination.