Film Lesson: "The Right Stuff"

In the film The Right Stuff it was a competition between the Soviet and the Americans. They were competing to be the first to get to space. Then they wanted to send a person in to space after getting to space. The Soviet was winning in the competition since they sent a rocket to space before while the Americans were trying to break the sound barrier. The Americans were trying make a rocket but took several tries to finally have a successful launch while the Soviet had already had a successful launch. The Americans then sent a chimpanzee to space due to the possible risks and not knowing what space is like. The Soviet on the other hand sent a human to space and was winning the race once again. The scenes that will help me remember this Cold War event are the the testing the people had to go through in the Space Program. Another scene is when the Americans got the news about the Soviet sending a rocket called Sputnik to space and then decided to try and send a human to space. Another scene is when the Americans sent a chimpanzee to space and it became to first american in space. These are the scenes that will help me remember this Cold War event.