Film Lesson: "The Right Stuff"

The US and the USSR were competing in the film "The Right Stuff" for better technolgy, fastest airplane, and who ever gets first moon. They are competing for whos better than the other.The winner of the competition was the United State. But at first Russia was ahead of the United States
Russia was the first to setup a satelli on the space and they had fast planes like USA too. The scene i remember from this Cold War event is when the United states tried and tried and tried to get the rocket to go to space and at the end it happened also when they showed what the Russians were doing.I also remember when the monkey went to space and how they were preparing the man and the monkey to go to space.