Film Lesson: "The Right Stuff"

"The Right Stuff" was a movie about the U.S. and the USSR trying to see who would get into space first. The U.S was trying to break the sound barrier. They succeeded when a test pilot named Chuck Yeager was able to do it using the X-1. The Russians were able to get into space first with their satellite called Sputnik. They were ahead of the U.S in the space race. This made the U.S want to break new ground in space. The USSR sent a man into space but the U.S. only sent a chimp. The U.S. was trying to create rockets to get into space but they keep failing. They wanted to find astronauts so they could get a person into space and then train them so they know what to do and know how everything works. Their scientists did various tests to help prepare them for space and even a chimp was being trained. In the end, one of the pilots was able to get into space.

The scenes that will help me remember the Cold War is the reporter trying to call the news after the sound barrier was broken. Someone stops him saying that they don't want the Russians to know about it. Another scene that I remember is all of the rockets failing. Most of them couldn't get enough thrust and just blew up in midair. It showed how much time and effort was needed to get into space.