Film lesson- "The right stuff"

In global class during ninth period, we watched a movie! It was called "The Right Stuff". It took place during the Cold war. The United States was competing with USSR to see who would go into Space first, also known as the space race. Russia was winning the competition because they technically sent a person into space first while the United States send a monkey into space. The United States went through a process in which they will find out which people were capable of going into space and bring it home for the United States. They would go through a list of men that were up to be one of the spacemen going into space. It was in a hospital in which they got tested and they would sort of shock the persons fingers and make them squirm around. Then they would tell them "Thank you" and call up the next person. It was kind of weird how they would be tested. After they narrowed down the list, the men would then be put in machines in which they would be shaken i guess to see if they can resist the no gravity in space. This scene from the movie helps me remember the cold war.
After they announced the seven that would be the lucky ones going into space, they would still have to go through training while NASA would be testing out spaceships. It was pretty funny how it would just take off and den go in a circle and come back down. It was a fail for the first few months and then finally they think they have it and then only the top of the spaceship would come off. So then Russia would send the first human into space while the United States send up a monkey up in space 3 weeks later. After they were made fun of for sending a monkey, they decided to bring back the 7 spacemen that were originally chosen to go up for the United States. Thats all that we saw that day.