Film Lesson: "The Right Stuff"

The U.S. and USSR were in the Cold war and during that time, both of them wanted to compete against each other with a space race. The Space race was a race bewteen USSR and US to go to the moon first. The USSR had a lead because they built the first Rocket Ship and had satellites.
The Americans got mad and wanted themselves to win the Space so they spent a lot of money into building NASA and required smart, intellegent, and healthy fit people to join. The Americans made it first to the moon by sending a monkey. The monkey landed on the moon and survived. So the Americans sent then humans since the monkey survived and the USSR got mad at us.