Film Lesson - "The Right Stuff"

They were competing to get the first man to space. Then the bigger picture was to be able to build the first rocket to fly into space. The competition was being won by the USSR they were the first to get a man into space. We were the first to have a mockey into space and was the sencond to have the man into space, but the first to be on the moon was the americas and from there we were winning and then won the competition because the USSR failed. The scenes from the flim would have to be the first rocket space blown up, and the monkeys being test and being the first one into space.