"The Right Stuff"

In the movie "The Right Stuff" the US and the USSR were competing over space. The USSR was winning this competition because they were the first to send a satellite into space. The United States didn't like the idea that the USSR had already sent something out to space and we haven't. We had decided to send a man out into space but we also had in mind of sending a monkey instead. We trained i think two monkey as we were training our astronauts. We eventually decided on sending seven well trained astronauts out with no monkey and that was a success.The USSR had thought they were winning because they were the first to send a man out into space but little did they now we were planing to be the first to send a man to the moon. And so we did, the man who was the first to experience the moon was Neil Armstrong.
The scene that i remember was when they were testing the rockets out and every time they would think the rocket was gonna be a success,the rocket would turn out to be a disappointment. They tried so many times to send out a rocket and each time they would test a new rocket it would go higher into the sky then the last one did except on the last testing. On the last testing the rocket did absolutely nothing besides throw the top of the rocket off apart from the actual rocket.