Film Lesson: "The Right Stuff"

In class we watched the movie "The Right Stuff". This movie was about the Space race. The two countries that were competing in the space race were the United States and the Soviet Union. This movie took place during the Cold War. For most of the space race the Soviet Union was winning for they were the first country to put a man in space, a week after the United States got an animal up there. They were also the first country to put a satellite in space. But in the end the United States won by getting a man on the moon. The scenes from the film that will make me remember this Cold War event would be when the United States had sent spies to see what the Soviet Union were doing and the drills that the men were doing to get prepared to go to space.