Actual footage from the Russian space program. I think we did win the space race, but the race was in movie making and special effects.
You guys can tell this is fake right? It’s still only slightly worse than NASAs movie tech.

I think psychological warfare was so effective in WWII that the tech kept developing with nasa and darpa. Nasa was never about outer space it was exploring the inner space of mind control. The tech is clearly about perception, deception, and behavior. Not spaceships.