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Hmmmmm, I think countries that perform under more utilitarianism government would just get it done. Saudis would just construct and deploy without care of cost or lives in the process. Before people say rable rable. I'm going to point out the lives lost constructing the football stadium for the world cup.
Centralised governments would also be quite efficient here. Look at how the Soviets managed to move industry east in the face of the Nazi invasion...
Centralized governments famously did terribly in the Space Race compared to the US after but a brief head start.
The ability to just command from on high/brute force a space program into existence from scratch with as many resources as needs be to get it done and as many corners cut as needs be to get it done first.... was good for, again, an early head start for the Space Race, but the US space program, NASA, and the army of private aerospace companies under contract took a massive lead in just a handful of years and has been incomparably ahead ever since and continues to lap Russia on space on the regular, to this day.
And if anyone wants to bite back with "the ISS"... Russia was not brought into the ISS project because we needed their modules or their help, they were brought into the ISS to stop the Russian space sector from collapsing and thus sending thousands of unemployed Russian rocket engineers off to consult in Iran or North Korea or wherever. It had nothing to do with "needing to collaborate" or "putting aside national borders in space". It was, in fact, a calculated geopolitical move.
Mate what are you on about? The USSR achieved goal after goal from first satellite, first dog, first person, first woman- and after the US finally got a person on the moon the USSR then landed the first probe on another world. On top of this, comparing the modern state of Russia's space programme with the US' is a little disingenuous given the collapse of the USSR, which is what caused modern Russia's space programme to rely so heavily on outside help in the first place, and well, even that didn't stop them from crashing into the moon...