"The Right Stuff"

The US and USSR were alway on competion like for example who was going to send the first man to space, who could fly the fastest airplane. Lets say when the US accomplished something they weren't able or allowed to tell the media. But as the US was trying to hide there inventions Russia has already send the first man into space before the US could. US was so mad and anxious about it that they wanted to make a space shuttle and send a man to space also. All the space shuttles they had done they would either go up a little bit and come back right down they always had failed. As the competion kept going the USSR was ahead and US was behind like always. The US trained about 7 men and a monkey to see if they could make it possible to go to space.Besides the fact that the USSR arleady had acommplished the space competion the US were not the first to send someone to space they was the first ones to send an animal to space and travel and go around the world with the space ship.