Last week I watched a movie called The Right Stuff. It was about the original 7 astronauts of NASA. The movie started out with Charles (Chuck) Yeager breaking the sound barrier. Which was the most advanced feat of airplanes at that time. We learned more about the test pilots that risked their lives every day to push the limits of how fast, high, and far humans can go. Then a new challenge came for the airmen, space travel. Russia had successfully launched the first ship into space and America quickly started a program to get humans ready to be launched into orbit. Men from all over the country were put through test of physical, emotional, and metal stress to see who would be up to the challenge of going to outer space. Finally NASA chose their seven men. Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton. Those members did many things for NASA, the went up to space in many different classes of rocket. Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and the Space Shuttle. The movie did a really good job of showing how big of a deal this all was to the United States at the time. And they did exceptionally well on how taxing of a lifestyle it was for those families.
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