Film Lesson: "The Right Stuff"

The movie "The Right Stuff" is about the Cold War. Specifically the space race. Russia and the United States of America were fighting for control of outer space. It started when America broke the sound barrier. Then Russia sent a satellite. America and Russia then were both trying to get life up outer space. America technically did the first life in outer space. But it was a monkey. When Russia sent up a live human a couple of weeks later, America was ashamed. America got revenge a little later by sending the first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong.