Film Lesson "The Right Stuff"

In the film "The Right Stuff" , the USSR and the United States were competing .They were competing on who would make the record of breaking the sound barrier. They would do this by making an airplanes. They were also competing on whether who would b the first country to send a man to space. Automatically Russia started building spaceships making them ahead of the u.s. The u.s had started the search of finding the most smartest and most fit people to become a astronaut. Russia had already sent the first man into space. Were the u.s had later sent a monkey into space. Russia had soon one the competition. A scene that would help me remember about the cold war was when they were testing all the people trying to become astronauts i found it very interesting how many test they had to pass. They had to be very healthy,smart and fit to become an astronaut.At the end only seven people became astronauts and passed the test.