What happens when a space program isn't guided by science but by government paranoia?
Star City (Apple TV) shows viewers how that might have played out. Set in the same universe as the show For All Mankind, it offers a timeline where the Soviets have gotten to the Moon first. The Soviet space program's chief designer just wants to send Russians farther and farther into the cosmos, but the KGB prefers to build a space station to spy on Americans. The KGB—despite not knowing "the difference between liquid nitrogen and vodka"—wins.
