Film Lesson: "The Right Stuff"

Both the US and USSR were competing to see who was the 1st to who gets to space. And at some point, the US was very embarrassed because they 1st sent up a monkey and instead of a man and it made them look bad. A few nights later, Russia sent up their very first man to space. That was why the US was very embarrassed because it made them seem better then the US. The Russians got a head start on going to space 1st. But the ones who won the race was the US because we were the first man to land on the moon. The scenes from the movie that will help me remember about the cold war would be when the scientist was testing out the rockets, and all of them failed. The reason why that would remind me of the cold war is because it shows me how funny it was when the Americans and the Russians were on a race to see who is smarter, stronger and better then each other but they all wound up failing.