Film Lesson: "The Right Stuff"

" The Right Stuff " was a movie made in the 80's about how the US and Russia were challenging each other for the first to make it to the moon.This war was a war with no fighting in it. In the movie, they were competing on who could get to mach 1 speed which is about 750 mils per hour( speed of sound ) and mach 2 which was about 1500 miles per hour ( 2x the speed of sound).

Then they showed how the Russians launched their first satellite into space. Then the US heard about this and then they choose 7 experience pilots who must of had went to college to be the first astronauts . One of the main character of the movie was not able to go up with them due to the fact he was not a college graduate. The Russians was winning because they launched the first satellite into space but then the US was trying to put men on the moon. They were not successful at first because many of there tests have failed month after month. So they decided to send a monkey up there for no humans losses. That however was a big mistake because it showed that the Russians had more guts by sending up a human before us.

The scenes that will help me remember the battle between Russia and the US would be the Mach1 scene which was very impressive and the scene were they were getting the 7 highly educated pilots ready for the big mission.