FilmLesson:"The Right Stuff"

In the movie The Right Stuff the US and Russia were competing to see who had more of a technological advantage.What they were doing was trying to out match each other. First Russia sent their satellite into space which made us angry and we had to prove that we also had that technology. So what we did was send a monkey into space. Russia then out classed us by sending a man into space. They were winning the space race and were more technologically advanced then us.
Some of the scenes that stood in my head were when they keep having those government meeting that the US keep having in order to analyze a way to come back and beat them. Also the government keep saying that they had spies which were taking the footage of the spacecrafts which sort of confused me to how they got a man that close to Russia's space programs.