What got America to the moon was taking the leftovers of an beyond-imagination evil dictatorship, designed to take over the world, and applying it to win a race

What got America to the moon was taking the leftovers of an beyond-imagination evil dictatorship, designed to take over the world, and applying it to win a race against another dictatorship. During that whole process millions of people experienced horror or lost their lifes in the cruelest ways imaginable. While I acknowledge, that economic growth has problems, it does not seem all that bad to me. I imagine going to the moon just is not a priority right now. The superrich already want to spend their money on space projects. Let's wait what regular people want to buy, after health, etc. is solved.