The early history of the American space race all wrapped up into one movie.
It sure sounds like a lot to get through in just three hours but they are able to achieve it. Each Mercury 7's story makes you care for them even more. Even Chuck Yeager's story, who without breaking the sound barrier, we wouldn't have begun the next steps into space.
I love films that revolve around a very important time in history. Especially when they tell the story about all the little guys involved. What we get in text books are constant facts of the events that took place. Dates and only the major details, but it's really a lot more than that.
History is about the individual as much as it is about the event. It's about the countless test pilots that parish trying to achieve something that one person is finally able to do. It's about the wives who have to watch with everyone else on a television, unsure if their husband will be coming home. It's about the person behind the event who gets judged based off something that no one else really would understand. It's knowing all this information and then going and taking another look into your history book and having a new outlook on it.
If a book or a film can help this, and get you interested in wanting to go and learn more? Then, I believe it has done it's job. After finishing, I went and looked up to find out what happened to a few of the members. It really re-awoken my interest in this time.
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