Film Lesson "The Right Stuff"

In the movie "The Right Stuff" the competeing of Russia and US was shown by showing the Space race they were having. At the first the Russians were winning the space race. They were the first to lanuch the a spacecraft to outer space. Also they were first to send a man to space and make him come back safely to Earth.
One event that I would remember was when the man would run to the building and tell the men what the Russians did and the other men would say we know. Also the scenes shown of the Russians. The scene that I remember the most was the scene when the US broke the sound barrier.