Film Lesson:"The Right Stuff"

In the film "The Right Stuff" US and the USSR were competing about NASA. The USSR were the first one to send a satelight into space. When the US heard about this they decided to send a monkey into space. But they send the monkey in to space the USSR send a man . So they ( the USSR) were the first one to send a man into space. the USSR were in the lead of the space program. a part in the film that remind me of the cold war was when the the mans were testing to fly the air plane.