Film Lesson: "The Right Stuff"

In the movie "The Right Stuff", the film depicts the competition between the US and the USSR. The movie is based on the Cold War, which was going on between the two superpowers competing over supremacy. "The Right Stuff" is about the US and the USSR fighting in the space race, a race to see who could send the first astronauts to space. In the movie it showed Russia beating the US into space on many occasions, like launching rockets into space. Another example of Russia winning against the US is the fact that they sent the first man into outer space while the US sent chimpanzees. I think the scene that will help me remember this event in the Cold War is when the US astronauts were being questioned over the choice to send the chimps instead of them.