Film Lesson - "The Right Stuff"

In the movie, the right stuff, they were competing against the Soviets because of the fact that they wanted to be in space and wanted to be in control. When the Soviets put the first satellites up, the Americans were kind of scared because they put it up before the Americans did. The soviets were winning because every time that the Americans got a little bit further then the Russians, they would do something even better, like when Americans put the first animal in space. Thats when the Russians put the first man into space. When the Americans actually reached Mach one, they were so protective of this because they didn't want the Soviets to know that they had the technology to fly at such a fast rate. The Soviets were ahead of them in the space race for a long time despite the fact that we had the best German minds developing the spaceships. A couple of scenes that will help me is when, one airplane had gotten to Mach one, and then when the spaceships kept crashing because they weren't good enough to travel into space.