Film Lesson: "The Right Stuff"

In the film the right stuff, the U.S and the soviet union were competeing to have a space program. The Russians were having more going on in there program so they were winning. They had the first satalite in space. They had the first human to ever go to space. All the U.S sent was a monkey. The movie showed how during the cold war the U.S. didn't wanna let the russians know what they were doing. Like when the guy broke the sound barrier they didn't want to let media know so the russians wont see. Thats what I learned from the movie.