The Right Stuff (1983)

What "The Right Stuff" was basically about was the age where the cold war was being made. When the russians and the americans were in the war. The americans sent a monkey to space using the first space ship, while the russians used an actual human to go into space, but both of the space ships drastically crashed and both were destroyed. the ones who were leading the competition was the americans because they were the firsts ones to go to the moon at the time, while the russians werent able to go up there.