Film Lesson: "The Right Stuff"

In the movie title "The Right Stuff" the U.S. was in a competion with Russian ,Soviet Union. The Russians had the technology to send people in space. In the movie, the Russians sent a satellite into space. The United States felt intimadated by the Russians technology and started competing. The two world powers also were about to start a war many times. The two countries were scared of eachothers because they both had neuclar bombs.
The scence that would help me remember certain things about Cold War is the scence with, the test piolets in training to become spacemen. This will help me because that shows me that the U.S. was at a struggle to be on top of the other countries with technology.