Film Lesson : "The Right Stuff"

During the film the US and the USSR were competing against each other. They were competing to have a space program. In the beginning the Russians were winning to get the space program against them. They had the first satellite in space which was called the "Sputnik". The first man in space was also from Russia as well. The United States were the first ones to go to the moon and plant the US flag on it. All the US sent was a monkey to space after Russia sent a human. During the Cold War the United States showed how they didn't want Russia to know what they were doing. When the guy broke the sound barrier the United States didn't want Russia to know as well that it had happened.