A long, long time ago, Russia and America weren't the amazing friends that they are today. Tensions about communism had reached fever pitch and both sides were racing to be the most supreme country of them all. There was only one way that either of them could win: by being the country who put the first astronaut on the moon.
That was then, and this is now. At the time, many though that this conflict would never end, and that both sides would keep pouring money into the project for at least a hundred years more. But fast forward to the present day, and things really have changed. The future of capitalism has been realized, where private businesses like Tesla have taken over the space race. And the future of communism has been realized, where the government plunges so much of the people's money in to lord knows where, they can't even upgrade their cars.